Word: tribalized
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...adventures that emphasize ecology, ensure that local communities manage the projects and receive profits directly, and minimize sociocultural impact - we're often reluctant to try it. Maybe it's because we don't want to spend our hard-earned breaks living on roots and grubs while staying in a tribal...
Such stories are common among Native Americans. Like legions of others, Bruno acquired his holdings under the Dawes Act of 1887. Its allotment program was an effort by Congress to break up the tribal structure by encouraging self-sufficiency among the Indians. The Dawes Act mandated that the land given to Natives be managed by the Department of the Interior's local BIA agent and promised that any profits from the property would be held in trust for its owners. The problem, say hundreds of families like the Brunos, is that the owners received relatively little of the money coming...
Still, Afghanistan’s proud achievement will not be worth the paper it is printed on if it cannot be enforced. While Kabul itself is relatively stable, outside of the city individual tribal leaders wield enormous power, and until they are disarmed it will impossible to form a national government that can claim responsibility for the entire country. The international community cannot afford a failed state in Afghanistan and must work quickly to increase Kabul’s control of its surrounding territory...
...store, MSH is tough to investigate because of the placebo effect. As Procter & Gamble discovered with its testosterone-patch study, arousal and desire are so entangled with one's state of mind that it's tough to figure out cause and effect. Says Altman: "If you're in a tribal society and taught that something is an aphrodisiac, it probably will be. But someone in Los Angeles taking the same thing probably won't get the same effect...
...After Pakistan's full-blooded support of the U.S. in the Afghan war, revenge from al-Qaeda and the Taliban was expected, especially as many of them are believed to be hiding out in remote tribal areas of Pakistan itself. With his crackdown on the militants?many of whom Pakistan had previously trained and helped sneak into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir?Musharraf has been playing a perilously nuanced game. To satisfy both the U.S. and India, he closed the offices and training camps of militant organizations, but has yet to dismantle them. For his efforts, he's been...