Word: belief
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...that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans greeted him by throwing bananas on the field and making monkey noises. This was not in the 1950s...
...that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans greeted him by throwing bananas on the field and making monkey noises. This was not in the 1950s...
Karl Taro Greenfeld heard first about the vinegar. Just across the border from Hong Kong, markets were reporting a run on all kinds of vinegar as local Chinese sought the liquid in the belief that, when it was boiled, the fumes purified the air and warded off respiratory ailments. Karl, who edits the Asian edition of TIME and is based in Hong Kong, thought this was just another exotic story, the week's equivalent of Japanese schoolgirls selling their underwear or a neighborhood committee in East Java beheading a suspected witch. These dispatches, however, were the first media reports about...
...Some scientists are not even sure the coronavirus is the sole agent behind SARS. According to Dr. Frank Plummer, director of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory, the SARS coronavirus is showing up in only 40% of Canada's probable cases. Though the WHO is holding fast to the belief that SARS is caused by a mutated coronavirus, Plummer says, "In our data, the association between the coronavirus and SARS seems to be weakening rather than strengthening...
...traced the connections of ex-ISI boss Hamid Gul and nuclear scientist Bashiruddin Mahmoud to al-Qaeda. Asad Hayauddin, spokesman for the Pakistani embassy in Washington, insists that "there is no complicity between any official department of Pakistan and Pearl's murderers," and that the very idea is "beyond belief." A Pakistani court sentenced Sheikh to death by hanging and three accomplices to 25 years imprisonment in the case last July; those judgments have been appealed. Given the troubling alliances he has divined in Pakistan, Lévy believes the Western world is arguing about the wrong issues and missing...