Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Albright's discipline and assiduousness, she says, came from her father. Josef Korbel was a formal man, a statesman turned professor, who learned to ski wearing his topcoat and tie. "He was a strict European parent," says John. Family routines were sacrosanct. Children were expected to be at the dinner table on time. "The most severe form of punishment was when our father wouldn't talk to us for a week." When Madeleine was invited to the prom in ninth grade, it triggered a family fight over whether she would be allowed to ride...
...chondroitin sulfate--are compounds that occur naturally in the cartilage cushioning the joints. In the body, glucosamine stimulates production of the building blocks of cartilage, while chondroitin sulfate blocks the action of enzymes that break down old cartilage. But can capsules taken orally do the same thing? Some European doctors are convinced they can, and have been using the supplements since the early 1980s to treat osteoarthritis, the common form of arthritis caused by wear and tear (not to be confused with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease). In the U.S. the use of supplements has been limited mostly to treating...
Elsewhere he compares different styles of racism. The U.S., with its predominantly Northern European traditions, erects distinct color barriers even though its population has been paddling in a richly mixed gene pool for more than three centuries. By contrast, Brazil is what Cose calls a "pigmentocracy," where the national myth of racial harmony masks a system in which lighter skins enjoy higher status and rewards...
Only one team qualifies automatically for France '98 out of each European group of five or six nations...
...Football Against the Enemy, by Simon Kuper. From Scotland to Soweto, Kuper analyzes the socio-political ramifications of soccer in nations throughout the world. How did Person try to use soccer to his advantage in Argentinian politics? How are Eastern European clubs linked with organized crime? Fascinating questions like these are revealed, and then answered, in very readable style...