Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everybody who gets infected with the AIDS virus doomed to progress to full-blown AIDS? As it turns out, the answer is no. Some people carry the virus for years without experiencing any ill effects; the author of one recent study suggests that they never will. Two weeks ago, European researchers announced that some babies born with HIV (an inheritance from their HIV-positive mothers) appear to be able to shake the virus out of their systems. Some people even seem to be totally immune to infection despite repeated, prolonged exposure to HIV. (See TIME's photo-essay "Access...
...number of students taking Fine Arts 17e: "Introduction to 19th Century European Art" has increased and many cite the professor as the reason...
...agreement guaranteeing international enforcement of copyright for 50 years. As a result, Japanese citizens can buy American '50s and '60s music and movies for a song. Legal bootlegs of an Elvis Presly CD which should sell for over $30 may have a street value of just five dollars. Several European nations have threatened to lodge their own complaints over Japan's practices in the coming weeks...
Ignatiev's heavily researched study goes beyond historicizing concepts of whiteness to locate their crystalization in the unique experience of Irish immigration. No other European ethnicity began so penniless, oppressed and spurned as the Irish Catholics did when they first arrived, or worked and languished in worse conditions. Irish considered themselves the blacks of Europe and black freedmen viewed themselves, according to some literature of the day, comfortably superior in position to that of the Irishman. Somewhere in the crucible of New England urban labor competition, the Irish forged a new white identity for themselves to ensure their place next...
...their telescopes for more observations and to their computers to analyze years' worth of data still sitting in their disk drives. Everyone wants to be the next to find a distant world. The scientists are eagerly awaiting the results from the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), a newly orbiting European satellite that can detect the faint heat from distant planets. They're looking forward to the 1997 installation of a new infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, which could take a picture of at least one of the newly discovered worlds...