Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century. Today our livestock and poultry convert feed into nutrient-dense protein with phenomenal and increasing efficiency. Cattle graze on rugged, mountainous lands that can be used for little else. The agriculture and meat industries should be commended for embracing--not avoiding--the science and technology that have enabled Americans to have the most nutritious and wholesome food supply found anywhere. J. PATRICK BOYLE, PRESIDENT AND CEO American Meat Institute Washington...
Beyond 2000, the big questions for mankind will not be what to do about garbage, cholesterol and aging. These are "American" and "First World" concerns. The great part of mankind living in underdeveloped areas will still be facing the old problems of hunger, malnutrition, illiteracy and the growing burden of foreign debt. In the last analysis, modern man cannot escape the perennial moral questions of his own existence. Man is tending toward nihilism. In the next millennium, the search for transcendence will be more crucial for man's life than is the search for the key to longevity...
...that many European countries are managing to recycle. Dilbeek, a commune in the western suburb of Brussels, managed to cut its garbage 70%. In the area where I live, we aim to reduce our garbage to 395 lbs. per person per year; that is 25% of what the average American citizen produces. There is no doubt that goal will be reached pretty soon. EMMANUEL DE BROUX Leignon, Belgium...
DIED. PAUL BOWLES, 88, individualistic Broadway composer and author of The Sheltering Sky; in Tangier, Morocco. A mentor to Allen Ginsberg and other Beat writers, Bowles delighted in rejecting American conventions. He lived as an expatriate--mostly in Tangier with his lesbian wife, writer Jane Bowles--and wrote disturbing tales of innocence corrupted by savagery...
...restricting, the practice. The problem is with folks like Davis, indicted on fraud and other charges by a Dallas County grand jury last summer. He persuaded scores of unsuspecting Texans to shell out millions on supposedly low-risk, guaranteed investments in viaticals offered by his Dallas-based company, First American Fidelity Corp. But authorities say the policies were fraudulently obtained for the express purpose of reselling them, an increasingly common practice dubbed cleansheeting. Davis allegedly solicited HIV-positive men to lie about their medical condition and buy multiple $50,000-to-$100,000 policies, which usually require no medical exams...