Word: modern
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...Kendo Club in her article, including the phrases "FREE HOT PHONE SEX" and "kendo" in the same sentence belies a deep misunderstanding of classical Japanese martial culture. Kendo--literally, "sword path"--is not any of these things. Born from the civil wars that engulfed Japan for almost seven centuries, modern kendo embodies the ethical code to which the Japanese warrior so stringently adhered. These values--resolve, courage, compassion, courtesy, sincerity, honor and devotion--play an especially important role in the lives of Kendo Club members and are inherently incompatible with anything as base as teleprostitution...
America has always borne witness to the often-bloody struggles of competing groups. In this crucible of racial, ethnic, religious and political difference, hatred has always been a fiery element. Though racism and sexism still exist, their expression within modern American society is usually far more hidden, muted and partly emasculated by good laws that rise above the struggles of difference...
...evil is more insidious, more present and more destructive than ever before. The hatred and prejudice of some groups towards other groups has rapidly expanded into a hatred for all but the self. No longer confined by the simple boundaries of racial or sexual difference, today's new prejudice--modern America's new hatred--does not discriminate. The individual is the insider, while all others are outsiders...
...modern trade embargo against Iraq is a siege by another name; we're waiting until starvation and sickness forced them to capitulate. Our ultimate goal may be the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's government, a good objective on the face of it, but our means of deprivation, our reinforcement of his heartless policies, is not the just way to achieve it. But he is the "other," and there by must be defeated at all costs, even the innocent. And who wants another energy crisis, anyway...
More than 75 years of digging in the ancient, arid sediments of East Africa has told scientists a great deal about the long evolutionary trail that led to modern human beings. They know about Lucy, the upright-walking proto-human australopithecine that strode the continent some 3.2 million years ago; about Homo habilis, the first known human species, which was making and using stone tools in the same region by 1.2 million years later; about Homo erectus, which emerged from Africa soon thereafter and spread across the world...