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These parasites have turned an evolutionary problem (being killed along with their host) into an evolutionary opportunity (being transferred to the predator and continuing to feed).
Since then, politicians have turned a blind eye to the problem.
Instead, he said, the tribal council, the federal government and the people of Pine Ridge have turned a blind eye to the problem.
But it is the policies, attitudes, and ideological blindnesses of the Bush Administration that have turned a chronic but manageable alliance problem into an acute crisis.
The report makes no mention, for example, of an October 2002 study by the Council of Foreign Relations that draws opposite conclusions about the role of Saudi charities and how "Saudi officials have turned a blind eye to this problem".
In one of its starkest conclusions, the report said, "It is worth stating clearly and unambiguously, if only because official U.S. government spokespersons have not: for years, individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia have been the most important source of funds for Al Qaeda, and for years Saudi officials have turned a blind eye to this problem".
Guardian Money has long argued that UK online bank transfers need some simple but important reforms – measures that would stop most bank transfer fraud in its tracks – but so far the financial authorities appear to have turned a deaf ear to the problem.
The territory's problems have turned a democracy movement once limited to a few hundred advocates into an important social force able to bring hundreds of thousands of people into the streets.
The prime minister's actions, Howe writes in the Observer, have turned an internal Tory problem into a national one.
