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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just have to destroy your own prejudices," he says...

Author: By Jie Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Discovering Cultures, One Bite at a Time | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

Call it trickle-down politics. No one realized in 1984 that the Reagan Revolution would eventually seep down and destroy liberalism in its safest sanctuaries. But the Reagan deficits, and the critique of government spending they bolstered, led to a steep decline in federal aid to urban areas, from $64 per city resident in 1980 to $29 in 1993. The inability to spend money has reached America's big cities, and it has done to liberalism there what it did to national liberalism a decade ago. To survive, mayors have had to either find new sources of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST OF THE LIBERALS | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...media misnomer really destroy an entire profession? The jury's still out on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Au Pair, not Nanny | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

Structural violence stems from the form and logic of a political system. This violence is used to cow the population into submission in order to support the system. In China this structural violence has taken the form of human rights abuses in a variety of guises meant to destroy any political dissent, free thought or understanding of personal freedom...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, | Title: Jiang's Halloween Costume | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...still undiscovered "near Earth" asteroids. That would enable them to predict, sometimes many years in advance, the possibility of a disastrous encounter. Those predictions and knowledge gained from missions like Clementine II would give Earth's defenders time to mount the appropriate defense, using missiles to deflect or destroy a threatening intruder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DREADFUL SORRY, CLEMENTINE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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