Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike the student and faculty disagreement that in the past has accompanied the creation of new departments on campus, the faculty's restraint in developing an environmental studies concentration is shared by many students...
...been a long and erratic evolution since TIME Europe first came out in 1973," says Prager. "But the process does not stand still. We want to make this magazine as international as possible without losing sight of the fact that it is by birth an American creation." With Prager and Ferrer at the helm, TIME International will assuredly not stand still...
...first to do so was Muhammad Ahmad, the 19th century Mahdi who raised an Islamic insurgency against British colonialism in the Sudan in the 1880s. The Ottoman Turks declared jihad against Britain during World War I. Calls to holy war took on new urgency, and new meaning, with the creation of Israel in 1948. Since then the term has been used -- and abused -- to justify at least three regional wars plus terrorism and murder, not only against infidels but also toward fellow Muslims such as Egypt's President Anwar Sadat...
...death of then-Chair Nathan I. Huggins, in December, 1989, was the first of a series of defeats for Afro-Am that ultimately resulted in student activism in much the same way that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination 20 years before galvanize support for the department's creation...
...Guards, first organized in the late 1950s, became Saddam Hussein's creation in the 1970s, when they were commissioned to serve as his bodyguards. His original recruits for the Guard units were from his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, and today the Guards' titular head is Hussein Kamel Hassan, 37, Saddam...