Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hostility tend to make such alliances between them shortlived." Moscow and Beijing are expected to conclude a deal this week in which Russia will sell a large number of SU-30 jet fighters and other military hardware to China. Although border disputes had fueled their feud during the 1960s, both countries also now share an interest in resolving those and developing a common approach to Islamic secessionist challenges. Most important, though, Moscow and Beijing share an intense resentment at being relegated by Washington to the role of character actors on the international stage. Where Mao?s doctrine of "The enemy...
...COMMENT] Unearthed by the Leakeys in the early 1960s, "Handy Man" was once thought to be the earliest tool user...
...height of scooter mania in the 1950s, the sleek, steel-framed bikes were symbols of romantic escapism. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn putted through Rome on a Vespa in Roman Holiday; it was a favorite toy of Hollywood's elite, including Gary Cooper and Jayne Mansfield. In 1960s England, while big, grease-sputtering Harleys were ridden by leather-clad Rockers, elegant Vespas were the signature of their archrivals--and regular rumble opponents--the fashionable Mods...
...mind/matter problem. We're basically rationalists, believing that the physical world and the images concocted by our subconscious mind are distinct and separate realities. Over the past hundred or so years, from the table-rapping seances of the 1880s to the playing of Mozart to plants in the 1960s to the spoon-bending ESP tricks of the '70s, we've come to consider that most paranormal interactions between these realms are either hoaxes or explainable by known physical factors. And yet we continue to play mind games with the physical world: whispering "Come on, baby" to the '84 Datsun grinding...
...myth of a gun-loving America is merely the product of gun salesmen, dime-store novels, movies and the National Rifle Association (NRA)--which, incidentally, was not opposed to gun control until the 1960s, when gun buying sharply increased--it would seem that creating a gun-free society would be fairly easy. But the culture itself has retarded such progress by creating and embellishing an absurd though appealing connection among guns, personal power, freedom and beauty. The old western novels established a cowboy corollary to the Declaration of Independence by depicting the cowboy as a moral loner who preserves...