Word: easternism
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...have been a tough choice--who wants to eat pesticide residue?--but the organic apples had been grown in California. The conventional ones were from right here in New York State. I know I've been listening to too much npr because I started wondering: How much Middle Eastern oil did it take to get that California apple to me? Which farmer should I support--the one who rejected pesticides in California or the one who was, in some romantic sense, a neighbor? Most important, didn't the apple's taste suffer after the fruit was crated and refrigerated...
...apartment buildings dates back to the 1960s, when the Swedish government poured billions into public housing. Driving into the area from Stockholm's gracious old city is like entering another country. In fact, there are few reasons that Swedes would ever visit. Little Swedish is heard in the Middle Eastern and African supermarkets, barbershops and call-service outlets; these days the street-side talk is increasingly in Arabic...
...percent of U.S. municipalities have SWAT units, and in cities with over 50,000 people, the number rises to 90 percent. Unsurprisingly, this has led to a dramatic escalation in the number of SWAT team deployments—over 50,000 last year, according to Professor Peter Kraska at Eastern Kentucky University. That’s 137 raids...
...four consecutive NBA finals and two championships; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. The man opponent Magic Johnson called the "best backcourt defender of all time" excelled in postseason games. His most famous play with Bird was in the last five seconds of Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Championship against the Detroit Pistons, in which Bird whipped Johnson the ball after stealing a pass--and Johnson, off-balance, pushed aside an opponent to lay it up and win the game by a point. Immediately afterward, amid a crowd roaring his praises, Johnson searched for Bird to congratulate...
...That bluntly? I did not hear that. But if I were understanding the whole Middle Eastern problem properly from the angle of American interests, I would put every effort to move forward to solve the problem of Lebanon and go ahead with the peace process...