Word: isolationism
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Opponents of the boycott, which include guide publisher Lonely Planet (now also a target of activists for its stance), argue that since state control of the industry loosened, visitors hand money directly to tens of thousands of ordinary Burmese who depend on it. Since when, they add, was isolation good...
But time swallowed those Asian sexual Shangri-las, and history, in the form of prudish colonialism, religious movements and puritanical social engineers such as Mao and Pol Pot, managed to drown the roots of those liberated notions. The Asia of the second half of the 20th century was a fundamentally...
We're in McDonagh country again for sure. Two gravediggers, whose job is to clear out old corpses in the local cemetery so new ones can be buried in their place, dig up the remains of one fellow's late wife. She turns out to have a huge gash in...
At TIME, we have long believed there should be a clear distinction between our editorial and commercial sides, or what we often call Church and State. It is important to the integrity of both that the needs of our readers and our advertising clients are managed separately, though this doesn...
"The drama of the AIDS epidemic is more subtle than the older calamities that have rocked Africa. It plays itself out behind closed doors. People are suffering silently, in hospices and hospital wards and in isolation in their homes. The front-line troops in this war are the gentle souls...