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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a leader in corporate exploitation and environmental devastation, especially in developing countries such as Ecuador and Burma. Although its practices have little effect on Americans except to lower the price at the pump, any responsible citizen of the world should be out-raged at the company's reprehensible outward behavior as well as the racism within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texaco Is No Innocent Abroad | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...very much!" These greetings were punctuated by constant repetition of a candidate's name and produced not the sound of democracy but an unbearable cacophony. Such racket is the implacable enemy of the reflection that democracy should encourage. I fear that despite the political correctness in some of its outward forms, Japan remains at heart and in spirit a profoundly undemocratic country. MICHAEL HOFFMAN Hokkaido, Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1996 | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...Baroque with a scattered few. If the students of film become what Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Godard call passionate cinephiles, they will be no less stalwart, no less engaged, and no less given over to the endless pleasure and thrill of what, at Boylston Hall, is now extending outward, in new directions and about all continents, through the practice and invention of Romance Studies...

Author: By Thomas C. Conley, | Title: From the 'U' to the 'H' | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

...been--to make those who undertake it radically mature, free and complete individuals. Today this goal appears Sisyphean, even ugly. Who can--or even dares to--permanently transcend all partiality, particularity and perspective? A person who succeeds in this kind of education will not need to indulge in outward experiences. He will not need others to correct or complement him. He will have overcome, to a scandalous extent, ignorance of what is good and bad, better and worse, important and trivial, right and wrong. He will not become indiscriminate, but will learn how to discriminate justly. If he shows contempt...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: In Defense of Liberal Education | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...leak calcium, which attracts enzymes to the area that chew on the tissues. The by-products are free radicals, unstable compounds that scavenge oxygen from healthy cells, often destroying them. As these cells die, they trigger a secondary wave of destruction that sweeps from the injured area and radiates outward. Blood flow to the central nervous system is slowed, immune cells flood the area and, in a frenzied attempt to clear away the debris, begin to chew up damaged and healthy nerves alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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