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Mail Online | 10/14/2019 | Sam Blanchard;Ian Randall For Mailonline
A British genetics lab has been accused of trying to make money from DNA samples taken from African tribes. Whistleblowers who formerly worked at the Cambridge-based Wellcome Sanger Institute have...
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www.oann.com | 10/11/2019 | Staff
QUITO (Reuters) – Indigenous tribe representatives from the Amazon in Ecuador joined an anti-austerity demonstration in Quito on Friday, as hopes for talks between protest leaders and the government...
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phys.org | 8/31/2019 | Staff
The indigenous people of Ecuador's wind-whipped alpine tundra of Quimsacocha face a stark choice, according to their leader, Yaku Perez. "We have to decide between gold and water," he tells...
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www.oann.com | 7/30/2019 | StaffLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveiled a healthcare plan on Friday to provide coverage to all rural Americans and Native American tribes, where mortality...
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Mail Online | 7/15/2019 | Faith Ridler;Harriet Johnston For Mailonline
A British documentary maker has revealed her shock at being caught up in an explosive tribal conflict in the Congo. Livia Simoka, from London, admitted she was 'naive' about how deep the troubles...
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www.christianpost.com | 6/14/2019 | Staff
Facebook Twitter Email Print Menu Comment WASHINGTON — Nigerians from predominantly Christian tribes in Nigeria visited the United States this week to share how their tribes are now “homeless” and...
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Jesus Creed | 6/5/2019 | Staff
What depresses me about Bible translation debates today is tribalism. Some have raised the bar of this conversation to such heights that variation is tantamount to heresy.
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www.theregister.co.uk | 5/26/2019 | Staff
AMD and Intel both teased details of their upcoming processors on Sunday at Computex, the computer industry's annual jamboree in Taiwan. Here's a quick summary of what went down between the CPU-GPU...
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ABC News | 5/14/2019 | Staff
In a remote, roadless Arizona canyon that is home to a small Native American tribe, there's a natural skepticism toward the internet. The telemedicine equipment that health care officials promised...
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www.oann.com | 4/26/2019 | StaffBRASILIA (Reuters) – Thousands of people representing the more than 300 tribes native to Brazil marched to government offices in Brasilia on Friday to protest the policies of right-wing President...
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ABC News | 3/31/2019 | Staff
Arizona Native American tribes on the hunt for animal hides, antlers, teeth and other parts for cultural and religious use have a unique new resource: the state's wildlife agency.
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Mail Online | 3/25/2019 | Dominic Sandbrook for the Daily Mail
With the Brexit cliff edge fast approaching, it is no wonder that passions are running high. The BBC, entirely predictably, gave blanket coverage to Saturday’s march in central London demanding a...
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The Daily Caller | 4/25/2017 | Staff
A coalition of 500 cities, counties and Native American tribes is suing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and some members of the billionaire family who controls it over the country’s deadly opioid...
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E! Online | 3/13/2019 | Staff
She was thrilled with her new tribemates and shared every piece of info she had about her former tribe, until her new tribe expressed desire to kill the chickens.
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Mail Online | 3/8/2019 | Associated Press
Brazil's agency for indigenous peoples has sent off a rare and high-risk expedition hoping to contact a small, isolated group in the Amazon and reunite its members with some of their relatives,...
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www.oann.com | 8/29/2018 | StaffWINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibian tribes seeking damages over genocide and property seizures by Germany more than a century ago said on Thursday they would appeal a U.S. court’s dismissal of their suit.
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Hakai Magazine | 2/21/2019 | Staff
Historically, snow from the Cascade and Blue mountains would melt slowly over months, releasing a flow of cold water that sustained salmon and other wildlife in the Columbia River.
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Mail Online | 2/11/2019 | Luke Kenton For Dailymail.com
Five former members of the evangelical christian group once know as New Tribes Mission have spoken out about the horrendous sex abuse they suffered as children. The women attended mission schools in...
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www.christianpost.com | 2/10/2019 | Staff
An American missionary in Brazil is under investigation and may be charged by authorities with genocide for making illegal contact with a remote indigenous tribe, potentially exposing them to...
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The Aquila Report | 1/21/2019 | StaffIn the wake of the death of John Chau by the hands of the remote tribe he sought to reach with the Gospel, the internet is alight with criticism that Christian missions are more akin to colonialism,...
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CNET | 12/6/2018 | Aloysius Low
Meet Bajau Laut, one of the last sea gypsy tribes in the world. Living in the great ocean in water villages, beneath the beautiful blue skies of Sabah, Malaysia may sound idyllic, but these come at...
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phys.org | 11/15/2018 | Staff
Which Pacific Northwest streams will warm the most in the next 50 years, and where would restoration work make a difference for salmon? Where will wildfires and pests be most aggressive in forests...
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Catholic Herald | 11/17/2018 | Michael Warren Davis and Damian Thompson
The Catholic Herald’s new US readers know that this is a horrible time for American Catholics. Mass-goers were assured that the Church had tackled clerical sex abuse.
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ScienceDaily | 11/8/2018 | Staff
The revelation has been published in Science today (Thursday, November 8 at 14:00 US Eastern Time) as part of a wide ranging international study that genetically analysed the DNA of a series of...
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Parent Cue | 6/2/2014 | Jon Acuff
I like to think I am a brave parent, right up until the moment I actually have to be brave. I talk a good game, know most of the buzz words and occasionally act like I have a few things figured out.
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Breitbart | 11/6/2018 | Staff
As Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reveals her DNA test purporting to show she has anywhere between 0.1 percent to 1.56 percent Native American ancestry, the liberal lawmaker remains ineligible for...
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Mail Online | 9/21/2018 | Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Heavy metal fans communicate with one another at concerts in a similar fashion to members of remote rainforest tribes, scientists say. The rules followed by so-called metalheads in mosh pits – an...
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www.whitehorseinn.org | 9/18/2018 | Staff
It sounds odd to say it, but I remember a time when opening my Facebook page was entertaining. In the carefree days of university, when I’d be twenty pages into my Rationalists 101 reading, I would...
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Live Science | 9/6/2018 | Staff
A dozen lavish medieval graves holding the remains of 13 people have finally spilled their genetic secrets, now that researchers have constructed a family tree of the people buried there.
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The American Conservative | 8/7/2018 | Staff
N., an exceptionally well-informed lay Catholic, tells me that there are two basic tribes of gay bishops and priests. The first tribe is the Progressives — some sexually active, others not — who...
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WIRED | 8/9/2018 | Mejs Hasan
Sometimes Vikki Preston is inching her way through the forest when she comes across a grove of tan oak trees that feels special. The plants are healthy, the trees are old, and their trunks are...
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Mail Online | 8/7/2018 | Sara Malm for MailOnline
Our connected world has brought modern ways and technology to even the furthest corners, but what many would view as positive progress has also put rural and remote tribes and their traditions at...
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Mail Online | 8/6/2018 | Charlie Moore For Mailonline
Life for Vietnam's 54 tribes is changing rapidly as globalisation and technology threaten their very existence. Clans who once counted elephants as family now smoke cigars, use Facebook on their...
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Conservative Tribune | 7/17/2018 | DCNF
The government is asking two American Indian tribes to return thousands of federal dollars spent on a Christmas party and gifts. This is to justify millions more that the tribe might have improperly...
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The Gospel Coalition | 7/9/2018 | Staff
After the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, pundits and academics have begun to take a serious look at the influence of political and cultural tribalism.
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Call Syria | 6/25/2018 | Staff
Nedaa Syria: Tribal clashes have been renewed near the Lebanese-Syrian border and have expanded over the past few days under criticism from Hezbollah and the Syrian regime and accusations of failure...
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Mail Online | 6/22/2018 | Julian Robinson for MailOnline
These stunning pictures show the last generation of the 'plug nose' women who once had their nostrils stuffed by elders to make them less attractive to hostile tribes.
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GetReligion | 6/13/2018 | Ira Rifkin
This post may – but is by no means calculated – to tick off some GetReligion readers. That possibility is undoubtedly magnified by my taking an alternative position to one of last week’s most...
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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion | 6/12/2018 | neo-neocon
“”Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?” is the subtitle of a recent article in Foreign Policy. It describes traditional but still-existent customs of many...
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GetReligion | 6/5/2018 | Julia Duin
In recent years, certain tribes in the Amazon region have been in the news because of their unpleasant habit of killing deformed or handicapped children as well as twins, and even offspring of...
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Science | AAAS | 4/24/2018 | Staff
Four years after Frank Seifart started documenting endangered dialects in Colombia, the guerillas came. In 2004, soldiers from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia swept past the Amazonian...
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Business Insider | 4/15/2018 | Foreign Policy
Some indigenous tribes in Brazil kill twins, children born with disabilities, and those born to single mothers because they are seen as bad omens. Children who have escaped this practice are...
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experimentaltheology.blogspot.com | 4/12/2018 | StaffIn light of my recent posts about post-evangelical Christian loss and nostalgia, our longing for a tribe, let me point you to Christine Emba's recent column in the Washington Post, "Liberalism is...
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experimentaltheology.blogspot.com | 4/9/2018 | StaffI wanted to make one other comment before moving on from this series about tribes and progressive Christianity. In Part 3 we asked the question, "If progressive Christians would like a tribe, why...
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internetmonk.com | 4/5/2018 | Chaplain Mike
A part of the reason post-evangelicals have a hard time emotionally moving on from evangelicalism is that a part of them misses it. What’s hard is losing friends, a community, a sense of belonging, a...
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experimentaltheology.blogspot.com | 4/4/2018 | StaffIn my post yesterday about raising Millennials as liberals, I bet a few readers were thinking, "What about the Benedict Option?" That is, isn't one of the big points made by Rod Dreher in his book...
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experimentaltheology.blogspot.com | 4/3/2018 | StaffThe other reason I've been thinking about tribes has to do with raising our children in the church. Last week I wrote about our small group discussing our being raised in smaller, more conservative...
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experimentaltheology.blogspot.com | 4/2/2018 | StaffThe question I left us with last week in Part 4 was if we can create a tribe without all the bad stuff. I think so, I hope so. I do think, however, that every tribe brings into our lives a suite of...
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experimentaltheology.blogspot.com | 3/29/2018 | StaffI started this series on tribes because of a conversation in our small group. Jana and I are a part of a small group at our church, a group of four couples who gather on Sunday nights to share life...
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experimentaltheology.blogspot.com | 3/28/2018 | StaffSo the root of post-evangelical nostalgia seems to be our deep, human longing for a tribe. Progressive post-evangelicals look back at their time as being a part of a tribe as a time when they...
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