For centuries, the nomadic Masai tribesmen have loped like lions across their vast grazing plains near Mount Kilimanjaro, wearing nothing much more confining than a breechcloth of calico. Even in recent years, the Masai have continued to carry spears, smear their bodies with a red ocher pigment, hang weighty baubles in their pendulous ear lobes and quaff their favorite brew of clotted steer's blood, curdled milk and cow urine. Now Tanzanian President Ju lius Nyerere has decided that it is time for the Masai to pick up some civilized habits. In a policy designed to stamp out "ancient,...
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