Word: europeanize
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...rocket and return home on the craft of another. The docking and six similar missions planned for the next two years are just warm-ups for the space industry's version of the Super Bowl. Between 1997 and 2002, the Russians and the Americans, with help from the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan, intend to build an international space station, the $40 billion Alpha. The elaborate station is to be assembled in orbit, and the purpose of the joint shuttle-Mir missions is to develop techniques that will enable spacewalkers to become a construction crew. Said Thagard...
...culmination of a back-door deal between the U.S. and Europe, former Italian trade minister Renato Ruggiero today was appointed head of the new World Trade Organization. The U.S. initially opposed Ruggiero's appointment, contending he was a European protectionist. But the Clinton Administration this week struck a deal with other WTO members to let Ruggiero have just one four-year term at the helm with former South Korean trade minister Kim Chul-su as his deputy. Ruggiero had his own explanation for being a one-termer: "I'm 65 and I feel very well, but I don't want...
Harvard should not be expected to provide students with a general European History or poetry class, but should demand that its applicants and acceptees have had one. As a top university in the country, it should be attracting those students with a previous, high-school-provided general education. Therefore, students requesting broader classes in the Core Curriculum are presenting an argument indicative not of a shortcoming in the Core itself, but of a lowering in the standards of "pre-Harvard" education...
...just released report from the CIA concludes that 90% of Bosnian war atrocities were committed by the Serbs, with at least the tacit approval of their leaders. The report, based on aerial photographs and firsthand accounts, comes just as the U.S. and its European allies are portraying Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic as a peacemaker, seeking to lure him into serious negotiations with the Bosnian government and Croatia. Meanwhile, in northwestern Bosnia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees cut emergency food aid to more than 100,000 Croatian Serbs and Muslim rebels, saying their leaders were making relief efforts impossible...
DIED. LIEUT. COLONEL MATT URBAN, 75, World War II hero; in Holland, Michigan. Urban's World War II exploits across the European theater ultimately earned him more combat decorations than any other soldier in American history, including the Medal of Honor and seven Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat, like the bullet that tore out a vocal cord and left him raspy-voiced to the end of his days. He led a milder civilian life as a recreation director...