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...Tribal travelers don't necessarily see kids as an obstacle to their adventures; the tribe simply expands. Jayme Simoes, 36, and his wife Laura, 34, are planning a 10-day trip next spring to the Azores with at least two and perhaps four other couples from their hometown of Hillsborough, N.H. "We all have 2-year-olds, and it was hard to find someplace exotic and interesting but still safe for our children," Jayme explains. "Laura and I had just been to the Azores and raved about it, so our friends proposed a group trip. Our kids all get along...
...towns of the Pashtun heartland. High-ranking Afghan sources tell TIME that the Taliban is trying to unite with the Pashtuns under one leadership. A core of 250 Taliban veterans is recruiting a fresh generation of young zealots from the refugee camps and madrasahs in the Pakistan border tribal areas. Tragic U.S. blunders like these help recruit them. Many Afghans who are not sympathetic to the Taliban are reluctant to help U.S. forces patrol their villages, fearing the Taliban will take revenge once the humvees roll away. "Afghans are sitting on the fence," says Nick Downie, a security coordinator...
...When U.S. forces do hook up with human informers, they are sometimes led astray. "The Americans made alliances with unsavory characters," says a top Afghan security official. He says some locals use U.S. firepower to settle old tribal scores. Special-forces teams have sometimes relied for information on warlords who had terrorized territories before the Taliban; the villagers refuse to cooperate with old enemies. At other times, intelligence relayed to U.S. agents has been deliberately tainted. An official in Karzai's office says the Afghan President told Bagram commanders that translators hired by the U.S. had been infiltrated by Taliban...
Forget sailors and musicians. These days the immaculately dressed M.B.A. in the office next to yours may well be sporting a tribal tattoo beneath his Paul Smith shirt. Tattoos have gone mainstream-and responding to the trend, tattoo artists are forsaking dingy backstreet premises for upscale studios. Setting the pace is famed British body-art company Metal Morphosis, tel: (44-20) 7318 3801, which has opened a parlor inside the swanky Selfridges department store on London's Oxford Street. Ladies Who Lunch can now pop in for a quick butterfly or dolphin in between looking for a new handbag...
...ANGELES: It might look more like an art boutique, but Black Wave, tel: (1-323) 932 1900, has become one of the most respected tribal tattoo studios...