Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mecca that devout Muslims are expected to make at least once in their lifetime. Participation has been growing steadily since 1974. Last November's pilgrimage was the biggest in history. Nearly 2 million people converged on the arid Plain of Arafat near Mecca to live in tents and perform the arduous five-to seven-day ritual that has remained unchanged for 14 centuries. More than ever before, the pilgrimage was a spiritual kaleidoscope of races and faces and languages from 70 countries, from the wealthiest of oil sheiks to the poorest of the poor...
...Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania clearly demonstrates the combination of design flaws, technical mishaps, and human error that can cause a catastrcphic reactor accident. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the reactor's design was ineffective in containing radioactive water; safety and monitoring equipment failed to perform properly when called upon; plant operators apparently forgot to turn on important safety valves deactivated two weeks before the accident and twice turned off the reactor's emergency cooling system prematurely...
...glimpses; I was always too young to even care yet about ghosts with which he wrestled. But after ten years my inability to build a complete picture of the man seems somehow irrelevant. Paraphrasing the folk story with which he concluded Confucian China and its Modern Fate, we cannot perform that task, but we can tell the story of how it was done...
...Daruna: "Some Pop therapies generate business by stirring people up, jostling them about so they eventually turn to individual therapy." Still, many psychiatrists already feel underemployed, because they often fill many of the same functions as psychiatric social workers, nurses and related professionals. Not that these professionals do not perform valuable services for the mentally troubled; but none of them must endure four years of medical school or long residency in psychiatric wards...
...hear more Western ensembles and study with teachers trained in a different idiom. For now, China's artistic world is celebrating the fall of the Gang of Four. Pipa Player Liu has a lively repertoire again; during the cultural crackdown, he played in the Peking Philharmonic, which could perform exactly nine works...