Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needs to win a second term. His weird Tex-prep political roots have always put him culturally closer to Barbara Mandrell than to Michelle Pfeiffer. As an Administration official explained, "I don't think Bush has ever had an affinity for the place. He finds the culture rather alien." In his autobiography, Bush mournfully recalled the late 1940s when he worked as a traveling drill-bit salesman in California's dusty oil fields. Bush spent his days dreaming of Texas. "Barbara and young George couldn't wait to get back," he wrote. "Neither could...
...long insulated by state- run TV. The government of Malaysia has announced a ban on private dishes, to protect its large Muslim population from contagion by "undesirable values." A committee appointed by the government of India argued early this year that satellite TV exposes people to "foreign perceptions and alien values." Still, STAR has already overtaken CNN as India's foreign-programming source of choice...
...usual scientific view is that because it's much easier to listen than to travel, we should look radio... but we should also look at the flip side. If you were trying to find out about an alien society, would you prefer to ask them the truth, or would you spy on them? Of course, you'd spy on them...
...first is a study of UFO abductions, a relatively common phenomenon that Eberhart says "may or May not be related to UFOs." In the usual scenario, people are abducted by "little grey men," brought onto an alien craft, examined, and then allowed...
...Roswell, New Mexico, in July, 1947. Several people saw the alleged crash, which supposedly left behind a significant amount of physical debris--including an odd, tin-foil like metal that could not be cut, a "weird balsa wood-like substance with odd characters on it," and, Eberhart believes, alien crew members' bodies...