Word: insularity
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...military cargo planes landing in Rangoon failed to quell the frustration. The U.S.'s top commander in the Pacific offered to "put Burmese officials on our planes and ships" if they allowed U.S. forces to bring relief supplies into the country. But there's little chance a regime this insular and paranoid will let that happen. The trouble is, the Burmese lack the kinds of assets needed to deal with a calamity of this scale--and the longer Burma resists offers of help, the more likely it is that the disaster will degenerate beyond anyone's control...
...their help. By working with non-governmental organizations, garnering support from the United Nations, and placing pressure on countries Myanmar trusts such as China, the United States and other nations can save many lives and start rebuilding what has been destroyed. In the United States, and especially within our insular college community, it is far too easy to lose sight of the larger issues affecting people around the world, and those Harvard students have taken time out from writing papers and studying for exams to spearhead efforts to aid Myanmar should be commended. Students are selling t-shirts whose profits...
...Burma's rulers have relented slightly, agreeing Friday to let in supplies and perhaps even some foreign relief workers. The government says it will allow a US C-130 transport plane to land inside Burma Monday. But it's hard to imagine a regime this insular and paranoid accepting robust aid from the U.S. military, let alone agreeing to the presence of U.S. Marines on Burmese soil - as Thailand and Indonesia did after the tsunami. The trouble is that the Burmese haven't shown the ability or willingness to deploy the kind of assets needed to deal with a calamity...
...Internet meme, which is anything on the web—be it a video or an Internet celebrity—that gets picked up and sent around to tons of viewers, has become a new cultural genre in itself, making its way into popular culture. No longer are the insular, nerdy tech communities complete worlds apart from those who go blond and sing Miley Cyrus songs with the top down. Now, they both can share in the LOLcatz.The intersection of the Web and popular culture has birthed a new “roflculture,” fostering new genres...
...that, in the words of author Jon Krakauer, their "relationships are almost impossible to make sense of without a flowchart." One figure in Krakauer's best-selling history of the sects, Under the Banner of Heaven, was both "sister wife" to her stepmother and stepgrandmother to herself. They are insular and suspicious. Williams did manage to get that much across in his meeting with the media. "What honorable father and parent would not give their all to preserve their children from a traumatic, hostile to them, even abhorrent society?" he asked. "What honorable father and parent would not give their...