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For centuries, the nomadic Masai tribesmen have loped like lions across their vast grazing plains near Mount Kilimanjaro, wearing nothing much more confining than a breechcloth of calico. Even in recent years, the Masai have continued to carry spears, smear their bodies with a red ocher pigment, hang weighty baubles...
Tradition has it that, to quell the restlessness of his troops when they were not tossing spears, the Greek warrior Palamedes taught them to toss dice. The ivories have been chattering ever since. And so have the opponents of gambling. Attitudes toward gambling have followed a cycle of restriction and...
Water Shortage. The colony's British rulers, who throughout the crisis have maintained a stiff upper lip, decided to crack down. Said Acting British Colonial Secretary D. R. Holmes: "The time has come to grasp and retain the initiative in this contest." Hong Kong's superbly disciplined police...
Living as a nomadic scavenger in his tribal area, the Aborigine eats lizards, goes naked, sleeps in crude lean-to "wurleys" made of bark. His society is organized into a loose federation of tribal units and practices a form of basic communism that does not recognize private property. His language...
The answer, he believes, is that chimps are "dehumanized beings," reduced to a more primitive way of life by their forest environment. But chimps have not always been forest dwellers. Long ago, says Kortlandt, they inhabited African open plains, walked upright and used crude weapons to defend themselves effectively against...