Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MISSION] To trace the history of sexuality in America...
These goals may seem naively out of step in America, the country that invented the drive-through and the TV dinner, but already in the U.S. there are 1,500 members dispersed into 21 chapters, or what Slow Food poetically calls convivia, derived from the Latin word meaning festive. Lately many convivia have been forced to turn away people lest the groups risk losing their intimacy. Petrini sees promise in such American phenomena as the rise of microbreweries in a market long dominated by a handful of beer conglomerates. He points out that with its immigrant influences and agricultural diversity...
...America decided 200 years ago to keep her church and state separate, out of respect for both. But Columbine confounds the Constitution; everyone is coloring outside the lines, between what is sacred, what is secular. Ministers call on lawmakers to pass gun-control laws, lawmakers call for religious revival, and Al Gore appears on Larry King Live, not just to talk about his three-point plan to make the Internet less toxic but also to recall his days as a divinity student and cite parables and argue that Littleton is "a spiritual signal," a chance to ask questions that aren...
...have concluded with the funeral, the cortege carrying the body of the beloved President or princess. In the case of Columbine, when the funerals were over, the service seemed to be just beginning. This owes in part to the fact that the massacre occurred square in the heart of America's evangelical community--Colorado is home to the Promise Keepers, James Dobson's Focus on the Family and vast and growing megachurches--and so from the beginning the reflex was to look not for reasons but for meaning...
MISSION To trace the history of drugs in America...