Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The gesture seemed nice: Stanford University would return some 550 ancient remains to the Ohlone Indians. "Indian beliefs hold ancestral remains to be sacred," wrote Stanford provost James Rosse. The result, though, was one nasty academic fight. Bert Gerow, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford and curator of the...
While the Penan are fighting the local loggers, the tribe's real antagonists are some 2,600 miles away, in Japan. Most of the trees cut in the Malaysian part of Borneo (the rest of the island is controlled by Indonesia and Brunei) are shipped to Japan, where the lumber...
The government's lurch backward to the thuggish practices of the Cultural Revolution may be the only way it knows to deal with another kind of madness: popular anger. At the time of the massacre, many citizens were so incensed that the P.L.A. was being used against the people that...
Guns N' Roses put out an album called Appetite for Destruction, which has sold more than 6 million copies. The jacket cover, featuring a robot looming over a woman in torn clothing, was so repellent that some record stores refused to carry the album. Says Tipper Gore, co-founder of...
Deputy Uri Vlasov, a 1960 Olympics gold-medal weight lifter, blistered the KGB as "that most secret and conspiratorial of all state institutions." Vlasov should know: in 1953 the Committee for State Security hauled off his father, a diplomat, and the man was never seen again. Make the KGB's...