Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downtown areas of all these towns and cities were once bustling centers of local commerce, replete with local stores and an individual character. Now those centers are modern-day ghost towns, with all the consumers having fled to the gold rush of national chain stores on the outskirts of town...
...hope that somewhere out there, some town can withstand the onslaught of modern culture and consumerism and retain some element of their history and individuality. And, if that fails, there's always the "inexhaustible" array of useless garbage you can buy at Wal-Mart for those of us still seeking variety. Timothy F. Sohn '01, a Crimson editor, is a history and science concentrator in Adams House...
...Grito" ceremony and the singing of the national anthem, celebrations of Mexican culture played a prominent role in the four-hour event. On a stage at one end of the Athletic Center, Iliana Vasquez hosted a show that included groups of folk dancers and both pre-Hispanic and modern Mexican music performances. Vasquez, who hosts the local television show Pachanga Latina, has attended the event for several years, but was serving as emcee for the first time...
...their left testicle for the same result. Medieval Germans preferred to put a hammer under the bed to produce a boy, while their Danish cousins placed scissors there to make a girl. None of it worked, of course, and despite impressive advances in other aspects of reproductive science, modern medicine hasn't managed to do much better...
With the approaching millennium and the chance to banish the shadow of colonialism from modern Africa, Mwangi is also interested in hearing Mandela's views on South Africa's possible leadership role for the entire continent...