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...Sadly, it is not hard to predict the outcome. The tendency to homogeneity is as irresistible as gravity. We see it in the world's languages: from a rough total of 6,000 spoken today, linguists fear half will disappear within the next generation; 90% will be gone by the end of this century. And with each tongue that is silenced, every dance that is forgotten, every song and headdress design that slips from tribal memory, we sense that part of humanity's common heritage is lost...
...Across the island, near the vast plain of gray ash that lies at the foot of rumbling Mt. Yasur, other John Frum believers see things differently. Here, every Friday around 8 a.m., the village of Lamakara falls still as three men disappear into a hut, where they change from faded T shirts and trousers into smart tan military uniforms. They then solemnly raise the flags of the U.S., France and Australian Aborigines, with whom they feel solidarity over land rights. When chief Isaac Wan appears, other men regard him with grave respect: they believe he is John Frum's prophet...
...recalls, she and her colleagues watched a group of dolphins assemble around a female swimmer the researchers later learned was exhausted to the point at which she was afraid for her life. "Conversely," Frohoff says, "I have been 'abandoned' [by dolphins], where all of a sudden they'd disappear and I'd see a shark...
...Amir Butler, head of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee, agrees. "The only way to fight offensive ideas is to confront them intellectually," he says. "Legislation cannot make bad ideas disappear." Butler fears that "if Muslims rush to the courts, some people will get the impression we can't respond to the arguments and think there must be some truth in them." Without the law, he says, the pastors would have been ignored. Instead, "they've become martyrs." And their Supreme Court appeal will bring even more publicity. In silencing two voices, it seems, the law has provoked an uproar...
...constitution, Nicolas Sarkozy is back, in the guise of a self-styled crimebuster. After an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet while washing the family car in La Courneuve, a desolate banlieue outside Paris, France's newly reappointed Interior Minister vowed that "the thugs will disappear" and that he'd "cleanse" the quarter. Two days later, Sarkozy decried that a man who had been granted early release from life imprisonment is now implicated in the June murder of a 37-year-old jogger. "The judge must pay for his mistake," Sarkozy fumed before an assembly...