Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...island prison off Turkey. The claim of a covert operation certainly bears up in light of the conflicting accounts, by Greece and Kenya, of Ocalan's capture. Greece says it had given Ocalan temporary refuge at its diplomatic compound in Kenya, hoping to secure him sanctuary in a neighboring African country. Greek foreign minister Theodoros Pangalos said Tuesday Ocalan was "tricked into handing himself over" to Kenyan authorities on Monday, and had left the embassy compound with Kenyan officials. "He chose, despite our advice, to go with the Kenyan authorities to the airport," Pangalos said, ostensibly to fly to Amsterdam...
Indeed, the research was roundly criticized in 1997 by Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, who compared it to the infamous Tuskegee experiment in which African-American men with syphilis were left untreated, even though penicillin was available during the study, just to see what would happen...
Scientists from the U.N. AIDS Program, which organized the experiment, argue that the situations are hardly comparable. Yes, an anti-HIV treatment was available, but at a cost that would have kept the study from being carried out at all. Unlike the Tuskegee victims, moreover, the African women were told about the nature of the research, in some cases by African health officials who had helped design...
...past such expensive, out-of-reach accessories were available only in pictures in the fashion magazines. But a new generation of higher-quality, low-cost extensions is going mainstream and becoming big business. By doing so, hair extensions have crossed ethnic lines: African-American women have long used them, particularly in the '90s for braided styles...
Ellis Paul, a critical favorite, followed, but his short passionate songs lacked the youthful honesty of Means or the twangy wisdom of the Charles River Valley Boys. The Silver Leaf Gospel choir took the show to intermission in overalls with an African fabric swatch reminiscent of a cummerbund under black suit coats. Their singing, deeper than Widener and friendlier too, inclusive of both Jesus and the "I just might take a nip" phenomenon, was authentically folk, seemingly grown on a stalk independent of any folk revivals or Newport festivals...