Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MASTECTOMIES To judge from the rush to outlaw "drive-by" mastectomies, you'd think we faced a crisis. But outpatient mastectomies (as they're known off the Senate floor) aren't really a serious national problem. Roughly 15% of mastectomies are done on an outpatient basis today, up from 2% in 1991. Naturally there are some abuses. But as with everything from cataracts to cartilage, technical leaps often make outpatient surgery the safer, cheaper option. Johns Hopkins University, for example, one of the nation's top breast-surgery centers, does mostly outpatient work and reports fewer infections and happier patients...
...Kennedy family--and for a nation shocked at yet another tragedy striking so star-crossed a clan--determining the causes of the crash is, for now, utterly beside the point. Other amateur pilots may learn from Kennedy's possible mistakes, but that will have to wait. For now, the price of that knowledge seems heartbreakingly high...
Politics, as the saying goes, is Hollywood for ugly people, and that was one reason Jack Kennedy gleamed so in his chosen field. Youth, wealth and that Kennedy brio helped, no doubt, but in this nation, which always loved its movie stars more than its leaders, dashing good looks, a beautiful wife and an untimely death make a sure ticket to immortality. John Kennedy Jr. was not in politics (though remarkably, everyone now seems to remember him as headed that way). Just as well, perhaps ? we don?t much like our politicians these days, and private-sector John-John...
...death, he will be more like his sister. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, so close with John their whole lives and certainly closer to him than anyone still living, has been the dominant voice behind this Kennedy farewell. John Jr. will go without crowds, without cameras, without much input from a nation that had no real claim to this president?s son besides an emotional one. A claim that it never staked on Caroline, which was exactly the way she wanted...
...protests continued in Beijing and other major cities against the arrest Wednesday of thousands of members and leaders of the group. "The government fears that Falun Gong, as a nationwide movement with more members than the Communist party, could become a lightning rod for the political frustrations of a nation undergoing traumatic social and economic changes," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Their belief system is a symbolic representation of the difficulties of modern life, and that could make it a very powerful force in a largely peasant population easily swayed by mysticism...