Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to USG President Spencer Merriweather, the USG brings an outside band to campus for about $40,000 each semester, prints an annual course guide, and runs shuttle buses to local malls and movie theaters. The USG also has three paid office staff members...
...apartment blocks that look to Western eyes as if they have been rendered uninhabitable by artillery fire. The city has no lights, no gas, no work. As our convoy drives up to the Gudermes administrative office with its fake Greek columns, we are met by a crowd of local citizens. We assume they have been bused in to voice their support and enthusiasm for the Russian presence. In fact, they have come to complain. Russian troops--in particular the special assignment police unit, a heavily militarized unit with a reputation for excessive muscle--have been looting the place. "They stole...
...University of California. Back in France, he refused to do his military service and dropped out of Bordeaux University to immerse himself in various leftist political and ecological movements. In 1975 he and his wife decided to move to the country, take up sheep farming and join a local peasant movement against the planned extension of an army base in southern France. Arrested for "invading" the base during a 1976 protest, Bove spent three weeks in prison but had the satisfaction of seeing the military project canceled five years later...
...baby boomers is also creating a boom of services (many of them free) for people thrust into the caregiver's role. Geriatric-case managers can offer all kinds of practical assistance to a family in need, from coordinating home health care to providing financial and emotional counseling. The local Office of the Aging, or Eldercare Locator (800-677-1116), can assign local case managers for families who live at a distance. Two particularly helpful Internet sites are www.AgeNet.com and www.aoa.gov...
...Trader Joe's on Memorial Drive and Bread and Circus Whole Foods Market in Central Square are two local stores dedicated to natural substances and foods. Natural junkies can purchase vitamins and meal supplements, as well as natural hair and body care products, essential oils and bath salts...