Polygamist sect survives in isolation
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Driving toward this tiny town feels like nearing the edge of the earth, a place of jagged red-rock peaks surrounding dry valleys covered in pinyon trees.
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JIRKATANG, India -- Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest habitat yesterday for the first time since the Dec. 26 tsunami and earthquakes that rocked the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and in a rare interaction with outsiders announced that all 250 of their fellow tribespeople had survived.
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Five isolated tribes living on the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands appear to have survived the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, although another more numerous group suffered great loss of life, a British-based charity said.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Mar. 7--JEROME -- It takes a village to raise a child, they say.   In Magic Valley, it'll take a community -- and a native plant -- to save a dwindling species.
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For many among the small and ancient community of Christians in the West Bank, a new security plan offers more safety than they have experienced in years.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Mar. 11--BLYTHE, Calif. -- The setting sun cast long shadows over sawtooth hills just across the Colorado River as a dry desert breeze whispered through the palm trees at a motel which served as an oasis.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - A young woman broke down in tears in a Utah courtroom on Friday as she recounted feeling trapped and overwhelmed about a marriage arranged by a polygamous sect when she was 14.
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A husband and wife who were stranded in heavy snow for 12 days were rescued in Utah when a snowplow driver happened upon them on a little-traveled canyon road. After writing their wills and recording messages for their daughter, the pair had abandoned their snowbound truck and hiked with their dog for three days.
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Cracks are already showing in the group led by Warren Jeffs, but many faithful followers remain.
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It was called Holy City, but it was not exactly a model of Christian piety. It was, rather, a commune and tourist trap created in the 1920s by a white-supremacist huckster.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - U.S. Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for arranging a marriage between an unwilling 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old first cousin in 2001.
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ILICA, Turkey -- For the past nine years, Osman Acar, his two wives, and 22 children have spent most nights inside an 18-by-15-foot tent pitched outside this remote village in the mountains separating Turkey from Iraq.
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BISHKEK, May 24 (IPS) - Surviving alone in the era of globalisation has  become increasingly difficult for smaller countries with limited  natural resources. Nations which were recently striving for  independence are beginning to unite with others as a means to  withstand economic hardships.
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By Howard Yune, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Jun. 16--They are like two peas in a pod, the churches only a few blocks apart on Yuba City's east side.
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When he was captured, fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was carrying a list of safe houses and a written decree banning members of his flock from disclosing his whereabouts, according to a Utah prosecutor.
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A small church community celebrated its heritage on Sunday. Parishioners at Holy Cross Lithuanian Church in Schenectady commemorated Lithuania's independence.
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SALT LAKE CITY -- In her battle to legalize polygamy, the only thing Valerie hasn't revealed is her last name. The mother of eight has been on national TV; her photo along with that of her two "sister-wives" has graced the front cover of a glossy magazine dedicated to "today's plural marriages."