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...Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber" was chilling. I congratulate TIME for gaining contact with the interviewee. Your story shed valuable light on why some zealots make the choice to carry out horrendous acts of terrorism. Heidi Deifel Salt Lake City, Utah...
...remote islands of the South Pacific, however, there remain tribes that are the last links to that changeless way of life, some making contact with the outside world for the first time last century; and there are many for whom the traditions of their ancestors are vibrantly alive. Yet in the cultural tug-of-war, the pull of modernity is powerful and relentless, and though some dig in their heels, the ties to tradition are beginning to fray...
...intended recipients of the grisly cargo. The boxes the skulls were packed in, however, provide better clues. They are clearly addressed to individuals in Germany. One recipient is a natural-therapies practitioner who declined to speak to Time about the skulls but says he does know Stuttgen. Efforts to contact the other man were unsuccessful...
...borders by little more than a web of narrow walking tracks. Money isn't seen here much, either. While few Tannese villagers still favor the nambas or grass skirts seen in Ianapus, most still live the kastom way, following traditional codes and hierarchies that have survived 160 years of contact with the outside world. They are lucky, for the land is usually so fertile that people have plenty of time to tend their culture as well as their crops of taro or kava. Even as the modern world encroaches, the old ways hold fast. On Tanna, home of chocolate-colored...
...anyone else contact you as a result of the publicity from the book? What were some of the reactions of the people you wrote about? Have you talked to them about the content...