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...fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles of discrimination. "It's still a taboo," says Hiroshi Kanto, organizer of a burakumin rights group in Kyoto. "It probably always will...
...These economic tensions, added to the age-old stereotypes of the Madurese as clannish, threatening and rude, made it easy to roil the Dayaks. Combine that with the Dayak claim that all Madurese men carry knives which they are all too willing to use, and the Madurese become in Dayak eyes a perfect scapegoat for their woes. It is easier, after all, to blame the Madurese next door for Dayak problems than the central government in Jakarta...
...Both sides of the age-old church-state debate have taken up arms against the Bush plan. Liberal legislators and activists worry that the proposal will weaken the church-state divide, and that by providing certain groups with federal funds, the government will signal tacit federal approval - or disapproval - of certain religions or religious programs. Conservatives, on the other hand, argue in favor of that same barrier because they fear the constitutional restrictions placed on government involvement in religious activities will force religious groups to water down their message in order to receive much-needed funding...
...members (and lawyers) get to revive the age-old battle between the First Amendment and its old foe, good taste. And, as is so often the case, the First Amendment victory is bittersweet...
...means that new, pristine tissue could be grown in labs to replace damaged or diseased parts of the body. And since these replacement parts would be produced using skin or other cells from the suffering patient, there would be no risk of rejection. "That means you've solved the age-old problem of transplantation," says West. "It's huge...