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...most scholars now agree, do they correspond very well to linguistics. Sykes has pointed out that the Basques, who speak a non-Indo-European language amid a sea of Indo-European ones, lack the genetic markers that would indicate they have been in Europe longer than their French and Spanish neighbors (though there are markers - such as a much higher frequency of RH-negative blood types - that point to their distinctiveness). And most speakers of Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric language surrounded by Indo-European tongues, don't appear genetically much different from their Slavic neighbors...
...what? Well, it complicates matters, suggesting that gradual cultural exchange has played a quiet but constant role in human history - and that invasions aren't necessarily all they have been cracked up to be. Thirty years ago the dominant theory was that the precursor of the Indo-European languages came to Europe on the tongues of warrior horsemen from the Pontic steppes of present-day Ukraine, and that the broad dispersal of those languages across the Continent was a tribute to their martial success. Then in 1987 Renfrew made a powerful case that it was the Neolithic farmers who brought...
...look at Maggie, you see the whole world in her face," says film executive Logan, who cast her in the hit flick Gen-Y Cops. "She sells because she appeals to everyone." The publisher of Indonesia's top-selling women's magazine, Femina, says a cover with an indo on it sells two to three times more copies than one with a purely local model. "Indonesian women see these girls as exotic but not exactly threatening," says Widarti Goenawan, publisher of the popular weekly. "It is an ideal to which they can aspire." Certainly, an approachable exoticism fuels many Eurasian...
...certainly welcome and long overdue. But what does it mean if Asia's role models actually look more Western than Eastern? How can the Orient emerge confident if what it glorifies is, in part, the Occident? "If you only looked at the media you would think we all looked indo except for the drivers, maids and comedians," says Dede Oetomo, an Indonesian sociologist at Airlangga University in Surabaya. "The media has created a new beauty standard...
...year, according to a Supreme Court ruling. He faces a host of pressing domestic issues and wants to arrive at a solution to Kashmir to remove doubts about his performance as Pakistan's ruler. "He is desperate not to be seen as the person who wrecked prospects for an Indo-Pakistan dialogue," says Hussain, the defense analyst. "This can give him tremendous legitimacy." Former Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik, once a behind-the-scenes negotiator for ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, says Musharraf is the best person for India to deal with. "Under a civilian government you cannot convince all constituencies...