Word: europeanize
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...reality, the artworks created before history began-prior, say, to about 10,000 B.P. (before the present)-cover a much longer time span than what has come afterward. Southwestern European cave painting, only the most familiar expression of ancient creativity, was done over a period of at least 10,000 years. And when Paleolithic people first crawled into the Chauvet cave to daub the walls with images of rhinos and bears, nearly half of all art history was already over with...
...drug already used to treat heart attacks also reduces the damage caused by strokes, a European study shows. The medicine, TPA -- tissue plasminogen activator -- enabled stroke victims to live healthier lives, but did not reduce their death rate, according to researchers at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. "For stroke victims this news is important because just a little more ability goes a long way," saysTIME science writer Christine Gorman. "If you have 10 percent more ability in your left hand -- it's amazing how important that is to someone who has had a stroke and survived." Approximately...
...audience member asked Bevel why he didn't consider European enslavement of Africans to be oppression on the part of the Europeans...
Left behind in the former heartland of European Jewry were 2 million, the dim shadow of a once vibrant community. Many were the elderly who could not face or afford the rigors of emigration. But most were the assimilated children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren--generations so thoroughly absorbed and secularized that their Jewishness seemed to consist of little more than distinctive surnames and distant memories...
...Jewish renaissance in those areas must overcome more than the horrors of Nazism. Even before the repressions of the 20th century, large numbers of Central European Jews chose integration and assimilation as a means of easing conflict with Christian society. In Hungary, especially, full assimilation was the pattern in the urban professions. During the so-called Bekabeli--the ``time of peace'' from about 1870 to World War I--many of Hungary's university professors were Jewish by birth but had repressed that fact, sometimes even accepting Christian baptism...