Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rush hour. This week several peace groups plan to stage protests in at least 15 states--but don't expect the spectacle of Vietnam War--era rallies. "You can't burn a flag here," says Anne Marie Weiss-Armush, a longtime Dallas peace activist. "Here people are very image conscious, and the image of peace protesters is very weird...
...ought to veil. This external sign of faith seemed harder for her nominally Lutheran family to accept than her new beliefs. Even today, "my mother feels I am singling myself out," she says. "She's embarrassed." But Roald is not. As a convert, she says, she is so self-conscious about other issues, such as doubts about her objectivity as a researcher on religion, that she doesn't worry about people's views on sartorial matters. Though she deems Norway and Sweden "maybe the best places for Muslims to live" in the West, the mood has changed. Islam has become...
...part of a lucrative fund raiser sponsored by the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). But parents fought the state for a special waiver; in exchange, they made some minimal concessions, such as serving pretzels instead of chips alongside the hot dogs. "You could make it a little more health conscious if you skipped the fries and put an apple [with the KFC]," says Candy French, an Oak Park PTO council co-president. Says Patty Jacobs, another PTO co-president: "A nutritious lunch is a lost cause...
...very conscious of trying to keep the rate down as low as possible,” Depasquale says, adding that annual property tax increases over the past five years have been held to about 5 percent, which he characterizes as a “manageable number” for individual taxpayers...
...these acres of graves, and they are moribund. The dying wasps were too obvious a reflection on mortality, as obscene as the contorted bodies in a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. I didn’t turn back; instead, frightened into solemnity, I walked on with the self-conscious gravity of a miscast Christmas pageant Madonna. And after a while, climbing the ridges and looking into the effaced faces of all those grieving angels, I thought: Death is not so fearsome, after all; I have been inured to it. I am changed...