Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guilt children feel about putting a parent in a nursing home can sometimes lead them to blame others for the death of their loved one. But what Leslie Oliva saw as her mother moved through three California nursing homes during the last three years of her life is part of a bigger, shocking tale the Federal Government will tell this week. The account is based on the most detailed look in more than a decade at some of the nation's nursing homes. "My mother experienced beating, malnutrition, dehydration and neglect," Oliva says quietly. "All three of the nursing homes...
...Rancid is a band that, in its songs, inhabits a tough, gritty world of drinking, joblessness, back-alley drug deals and disillusioned immigrants; a world where corporations crush workers, governments lie to their citizens, and punk rock offers one of the few paths toward salvation. The songs on the California-based band's new album have names like Bloodclot, Black Lung and Cash, Culture & Violence; the guitar work is raw and roaring; and the quartet's two singer-guitarists, scraggly-voiced Tim Armstrong and bellowing Lars Frederiksen, both tend to slur and snarl their way through songs...
...person city just north of Jerusalem's younger, larger, secular brother Tel Aviv), "Beverly Hills 90210," "Family Matters" and "Full House" are on the menu daily, not to mention CNN. There are also some shows you might have missed the first time around, like "Mr. Rhodes" and "California Dreams." Kellogg's, Subway and Puff Daddy are household names here, and NBA basketball is followed closer than in the States. English words in Hebrew-Aramaic characters fill the newspapers, as do all-too-familiar faces--from George Clooney to Kenneth Starr...
...blame them. When I join them at the tube, I see an America where all problems are solved in 30 minutes, often with time for commercials. My 16-year-old cousin looked at me incredulously (and asked in perfect English) what was wrong with me that I would leave California for Israel of all places--or leave California for anywhere, for that matter. For them--and probably for many more people in America and elsewhere--the Beverly Hills of the television show is reality: everyone can wear nice clothes, there is little crime, no politics and no taxes, serious problems...
...religions have a long and increasingly bright history of cooperation rather than war. Israel can also teach us about housing shortages and how to maintain order and hope in the face of faceless terrorists. Israel, built in a desert, can teach Beverly Hills and the rest of thirsty California about water conservation...