Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than 50%, creating a demand for a new type of worker. Computers and communications equipment do not require strength or aggressiveness, and this has helped transform the role of women in industrial societies. These changes go on today at the edges of the information age. In New Guinea, for example, rural men skilled in warfare and hunting are by turns mystified and mortified when they have to deal with women as equals if not superiors in modern banks and offices...
...fetal tissue to preserve youth. To prove his innocence, Danny embarks on a journey through the culture of Southern California, where fast sex, fast cars (with cellular phones) and fast money pass for the Trinity. He meets the Uber-twins, Boyd and Lloyd, Tohlson's guinea pigs, as stupid as they are strong. There is also Cubanito, a drug dealer who hates the sloppiness of killing and reads FORTUNE so that he can diversify and buy a McDonald's. He is learning the "langwich," he tells Danny. The sweet, agoraphobic Michael, Lauren's brother, a caretaker...
...dash into battle. Caro meticulously records L.B.J.'s attempts to gain desk jobs in Washington and his junkets up and down the West Coast inspecting Naval facilities. Finally, facing political humiliation, he flew to the Pacific, went along as an observer on a bombing run in New Guinea, spent a few minutes under enemy fire, and returned at once to the U.S. For this he was awarded the Silver Star...
Johnson said that in Guinea Bissau, new corn-husking machines allow women to abandon the job and spend more time with their families, nurturing their children. "And the men feel the women are warmer toward them," she said...
...accurate death tally is available, but several hundred are thought to have died. Up to 100,000 Nimba residents have fled their homes, crossing into the neighboring Ivory Coast or Guinea, or hiding out in the bush...