Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Convention in Philadelphia can start planning for the 55 different parties, lighted boat parade and fireworks that will spell out G.O.P. 2000. But they can't start planning where they're going to stay. Edward Rendell, the popular Democratic mayor of Philadelphia, instituted a tough "no whining" policy for local hotels to ensure that Republicans get a warm welcome. Rendell, who intends to run for Governor, needs the convention to go swimmingly. "They're not allowed to book anybody," says Rendell. "Every hotel has guaranteed 90% of its room block for that week. They're not allowed to take...
...conference took place at Teufelsberg, a once secret complex built on an artificial mountain in a forest near the outskirts of West Berlin. Surmounted by the eerie globes of eavesdropping radio antennas, Teufelsberg was a huge cold war spy station. (These days it's in the hands of local developers, who are hoping to build a spy-themed hotel on the site...
...journalists have become dual purpose. They donate a couple of hours every Tuesday during the school year to a program called Time to Read. Since its launch in 1985, TIME staff members, as well as those from other Time Inc. publications, have served as reading tutors to local public school students. The pupils read from a variety of our magazines, from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS to TEEN PEOPLE, enhancing their learning skills and perhaps developing into discerning interpreters of the news. Staff writers Karl Taro Greenfeld, Joel Stein and Romesh Ratnesar and writer-reporters Michele Orecklin and Jodie Morse...
...local bookstore has a shelf of relationship books that is longer than most relationships, detailing how to find the love you want, how to get married and how to create, and try to maintain, those "positive illusions." In our popular culture, marriage seems to flow naturally from romance--Julia Roberts keeps running off with Richard Gere. Americans love to get married, but half our marriages don't take. Then we switch partners and remarry, with roughly the same odds of success...
...Goodbye to all the conquests of Alexander the Great, says Princeton historian Josiah Ober. The Persian Empire would have overtaken the known world. The great promise of Hellenism would have lost its way; the growing Roman Empire would have atrophied; Judea would have remained a backwater, Jesus merely "a local religious figure," and Christianity and Judaism insignificant provincial oddities. There would have been no need for a Martin Luther, no Reformation, no Renaissance, no Enlightenment, no Western culture...