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At least 12 people dead after crowd crush at football stadium in El Salvador | Football

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Football This article is more than 7 months oldAt least 12 people dead after crowd crush at football stadium in El SalvadorThis article is more than 7 months oldIncident occurred at the Estadio Cuscatlán in San SalvadorPresident Nayib Bukele pledges ‘thorough investigation’At least 12 people have died with more than 100 injured in a crowd crush at a football stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the Central American country’s government has confirmed. Read More...

Excerpt: 'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes'

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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Daniel Everett Hardcover, 304 pages Pantheon List Price: $26.95 Prologue "Look! There he is, Xigagai, the spirit." "Yes, I can see him. He is threatening us." "Everybody, come see Xigagai. Quickly! He is on the beach!" I roused from my deep sleep, not sure if I was dreaming or hearing this conversation. It was 6:30 on a Saturday morning in August, the dry season of 1980. Read More...

Mary Lou Williams, Missionary Of Jazz

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Mary Lou Williams seemed to learn early that playing piano would keep her alive. Maybe she realized this at age six, when she started venturing to her white neighbors' homes to play piano for them. As Williams later recalled to the journalist John Wilson for the Jazz Oral History Project at the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, she got the neighbors to stop throwing bricks into her family's house by giving them private concerts. Read More...