Word: fijian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fijian girls with eating disorders three years after the islands...
...more than a note in someone's diary now, we already know much about the millennial baby. As a Capricorn, the infant is allegedly fated to be practical, ambitious and fatalistic. International time zones dictate that junior will quite probably be a New Zealander, Fijian or Russian. Or, of course, someone visiting those countries in order to have the millennium's first baby...
...ETHNICITY] 50% chance of being Fijian; 46% Indian...
...century ago, the International Meridian Conference did Fiji a favor. The conferees laid out the international date line along the 180th meridian but put an eastward kink in it to keep the people of the far-flung islands of the Fijian archipelago on the same page of their day planners. Now Fijians are calling that good turn a bad one. Repudiating the date line as an artificial construct, they claim their country, which straddles the 180th line of longitude, will be the first to greet the year...
...yards of a U.N. facility. Lipkin-Shahak said his troops were also under orders to respond to Katyusha attacks. "We told the U.N. we planned to fire," he said. But when the shelling of Qana began, Time Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe heard a U.N commander radio a panicked Fijian soldier that headquarters had asked Israel to stop the bombardment. The firing continued. Only after several minutes of shelling did Israel officially warn the U.N. it was was targeting Qana. Yet in an interview with TIME on Friday, Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, former chief of staff, insisted the troops...