Word: isolationism
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Henan province Chung to, founder and director of the nonprofit Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong, is one of the few outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned...
We crave connections because we can’t get lost in the shuffle if people know us, if we’ve made an impression on them, if they count us among their friends. Being alone is my biggest fear, and if thefacebook.com tells me I have 402 friends...
The conversation quickly turned away from science; all my friends were mesmerized by tales of neighborhood rumbles between oversized ten year-olds at the local pools. This was hardly the first time I had witnessed casual conversation touch the edge of scientific inquiry and bounce back off, like a projectile...
It would take six decades for the U.S. to acknowledge Haiti's independence. By the time Abraham Lincoln did so in 1862, America was already at war with itself over the issue of slavery. Haiti, burdened by its postindependence isolation and the 100 million francs in payment it was forced...
History has proven that group mentality produces its share of problems and feuds exist even within clans. Yet kinship is still a valuable state of mind. In the isolation that often comes in an advancing world, a desire for something more than a friendship occurs. A clanship forces you to...