Word: centralism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dietitians and nutritionists) who relies on news accounts to keep abreast of new research. Cosman warns her clients to visit a doctor before taking herbs and fears that too many are searching for magic bullets. "My concern is that they are overhyping herbs," she says, "and missing the central idea that you must eat healthy...
...sifting proceeds, the accountants are hitting upon records of Jewish clients who are still alive and in no mood to have their nest eggs probed. Slowing down the inquiry is the investigators? insistence on checking the identity of thousands of Jewish names in the banks? records against the central archives of Yad Vashem in Israel, where more than a million Holocaust victims are registered...
...third and central work of Calasso's five-book project about mythical and intellectual beginnings. The first book in the series was the critically and popularly acclaimed The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which recounted with proper flair and fervor the entire chronology and theogeny of Greek and Roman mythology for over-stimulated postmodern audience. Next came The Ruin of Kasch, which told of how modern culture and ideas can spring from the complete decimation of a past culture. In Ka, Calasso tackles the myths of the Indian subcontinent and traces the theological origins of that culture from these stories...
...Zwick intended his movie to explore the contradictions of an American culture "whose central founding myths involve liberty and tolerance," many Muslim- and Arab-Americans across the country feel it also perpetuates Hollywood's malignant portrayal of their religious and ethnic culture...
...told Jonathan Katz (of Comedy Central's Dr. Katz) that I was going to interview him for Fifteen Minutes. Thinking he would only be committing to a short question/answer session, he agreed. Here's what happened...