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...Obaidullah Akhund?who reportedly surrendered to the new government last week and was set free?read a decree by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the movement's spiritual leader, ordering the Buddhas destroyed. The Hazara, the dominant ethnic group here, believe the Taliban had another agenda: to destroy them, too. Of Mongoloid stock, the Hazara have long been the objects of discrimination in Afghanistan, and suffered a terrible massacre in Kabul in 1993 by troops under the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. But they fared even worse under the Taliban. They are Shi'ite Muslims, and therefore heretics...
...Firmly rooted in their eponymous theories of musical "de-evolution," Devo burst onto the musical scene in the late '70s with the memorable "Jocko Homo" and "Mongoloid," and continued producing songs like the oft-covered "Girl U Want" and, yes, "Whip It." The band carved its own niche through minimal instrumentation, precise rhythms and sing-songy atonality; it became known for its cover versions, which "de-evolved" classics like the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" into their bare structural elements. Remembered by most for their early contributions to music video in red flowerpot hats...
Those Aussies are everywhere. In a discovery that may rewrite ancient history, a group of Brazilian researchers has some anthropologists believing that the first inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere may have been blacks from Australia rather than Mongoloids from Northeast Asia. Research presented this week portrays a people who traveled by sea from Australia to South America 13,000 years ago. Anthropologists have long reasoned that the Americas' first inhabitants were Mongoloid hunters who followed large game across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, formed between 12,000 and 20,000 years ago when glaciers melted. Over the centuries...
...interested in," says neighbor Doris Sepulveda, who watched the Lopezes trying to sell a child's tricycle outside their building. Another neighbor, Eric Latorre, recalls seeing the whole family out at 2 a.m. as Awilda sought crack. Awilda had reportedly come to believe that Elisa, whom she called a mongoloid and filthy little whore, had been put under a spell by her father--a spell that had to be beaten out of the child. Neighbors, some of whom say they called the authorities, later told the press of muffled moaning and Elisa's voice pleading, "Mommy, Mommy, please stop...
Even then, the territory was an exotic ethnic mix that included Indo-Aryan Assamese, Assamese-speaking Hindus in the Brahmaputra valley, dozens of hill tribes of Mongoloid stock, and indigenous plains tribes. Then came successive waves of Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, who were first brought in by the British to run the tea plantations and the civil service of the British raj. Bengali immigration intensified during partition in 1947 and again after the creation of Bangladesh. Although its population is one of the fastest growing on the subcontinent, Assam has only 254 people per sq. km. West Bengal...