four decades

Nationality, tradition and belonging: The themes of Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction spring from the complexities of the author's own life.

Born to Indian parents in London and raised in Rhode Island, Lahiri says she's struggled for four decades to feel like she belonged in America.

» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

AP - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind.

The first dig inside the ring at Stonehenge in more than four decades hopes finally to resolve its mysteries.