Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American women are the healthiest, most coddled, most protected women on the planet," Zubaty said. "They are not expected to fight in wars, mine coal, pour asphalt, or lay bricks. Women receive welfare benefits that are withheld from men. Women are an exalted majority, not a victimized minority...
...chest-hair exhibitor DAVID HASSELHOFF is interested in starting a chain of Baywatcher restaurants, with the first planned for already overpolluted New York City. Finally, in a key breakthrough in celebrity-Israeli relations, Kurt Waldheim's buddy ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER visited Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin before breaking ground for a Planet Hollywood in Tel Aviv...
...constant buzz of the same commercial music all around the world or even in international advertising. It lies in something deeper: thanks to the modern idea of constant progress, with its inherent expansionism, and to the rapid evolution of science that comes directly from it, our planet has, for the first time in the long history of the human race, been covered in the space of a very few decades by a single civilization--one that is essentially technological...
...destroyan entire metropolis in a single air-raid. And howmuch easier would it be today, in the era oftelevision, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin topervert the spirit of a whole nation. When havepeople ever had the power we now possess to alterthe climate of the planet or deplete its mineralresources or the wealth of its fauna and flora inthe space of a few short decades? And how muchmore destructive potential do terrorists have attheir disposal today than at the beginning of thiscentury...
...policing what their children hear and see overlook that even good parents -- who've never been busier or had a more pervasive pop culture to contend with -- are sometimes too overwhelmed to fight. Bad parents -- and there are millions -- aren't even trying. But we all must share the planet with the kids they're raising badly...