But isolation poses problems too: recently, an injured Chilean fisherman could not be flown to hospital for several days, for example.
But the isolation that lasted for two decades has begun to crack.
New York is a great town for independence, he says, but the isolation also creates conditions for quirky community: "You have more people here who will read your stupid posting while walking their dogs, and take time to write your number down and respond, than anywhere else, " he says.
"All of them are being kept in isolation but they are being treated the same as any other patient, " the spokesperson added.
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An exchange, he said, should not be seen in isolation but as the hub of a network that includes brokers, dealers and investors.
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What we have here in Portland is a bunch of not-quite-overlapping creative communities operating on a fairly high level, but somewhat in isolation from one another.
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The key to its ambitious, all-embracing programme is that it does not consider literacy in isolation but as part of continuing education and learning throughout life.
Their problems do not occur in isolation, but are manifestations of failures to which all Americans contributed together.
Leadership is not about isolation, but aggregation, not addition or subtraction, but multiplication.
The original hospital on the site was opened in 1910 and used as an isolation hospital but the current facility was rebuilt in 1994.
The key element of sustainability is that we do not look at any of them in isolation, but rather maintain the integrity of these three elements concurrently.
They can sound like generic advice when viewed in isolation, but the challenges that people are facing and the fears that keep them from acting are real.
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Finally, you say that the world's 600m poorest people saw their share of world income fall between 1988 and 1993 not because of globalisation but because of economic isolation.
Thomas does not want the Heineken Cup to be considered in isolation, but rather as part of a wider discussion about the structure of the sport and the management of elite players.
Now, this is something that's very popular if you just say it in isolation, but when you start explaining what is required to make that happen, then sometimes some people get a little nervous.
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But, after years of isolation, many prisoners change in another way that Haney observed.
Primarily that would be the weather but we also think loneliness and isolation contributes to that.
But, paradoxically, this lesser isolation might matter more than the greater one did.
"I can see what people are saying but it is being taken in isolation because Stuart Broad came through that system, " said England coach Peter Moores.
The yachts and boutiques of Monaco are only four miles away as the crow flies, on the other side of the mountain, but here, the sense of isolation is complete.
These are firms that sift through the extended chain of participants in an industry, looking for information that in isolation might be meaningless but assembled with other facts presents the next great trading opportunity.
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Technology offers more ways of nominal communication, but our society tends to promote actual isolation.
Perhaps it was the isolation of the jungle, but William even had time to joke with an approved photographer who was dangling from a tree.
But this position should not be viewed in isolation from the broader constitutional order established by the Basic Law.
But there's growing evidence that social isolation is connected with an increased risk of physical ill health as well.
Burma's domestic industry - hampered, but also sheltered, by the years of isolation - now faces the chill wind of competition.
The criteria for the isolation of prisoners vary by state but typically include not only violent infractions but also violation of prison rules or association with gang members.
There were undoubtedly some players that wanted to build a "single city in isolation" as in older games but just as many were "loving the always-connected functionality", she said.
But American policy should not be seen in isolation: while the Fed should be raising rates, the European Central Bank should be cutting them, and Japan needs reflation too.
At this juncture it is far too early to answer that question, but most would likely say Iran's isolation to date has not been the answer to their financial woes.
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