Word: popularized
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Wise, who became interested in animal rights in the 1970s when he read the book Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, believes animal rights law is an increasingly popular field...
Living in Los Angeles without a car is like being a fish without fins, or so I was told. In fact, it's more like being a fish who has to take the bus. That's right, contrary to popular belief, it is indeed possible to take the bus in LA, not only that, it's possible to get to work on time too. Plus, if you're me, you get to spend some of your bus stop time gazing at the stars on the Hollywood Boulevard side-walk. Buster Keaton lives on for me each morning between...
...Milosevic?s Socialist Party scheduled a rally of his supporters there at the same time ? and in the same place ? as an opposition rally. Although only a few dozen Milosevic supporters showed up to confront the 4,000 opposition protestors, the move reveals Milosevic's strategy for coping with popular discontent. "Slobo wants some heads broken in confrontations between his supporters and opponents," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "Then he?ll step forward, playing on the fear of civil war in Serbia, and present himself as the only person capable of ensuring peace. It?s the strategy...
Peer pressure rears its head in other ways as well. What does it take to "fit in" at school? Kids ages 9 to 11 say it's being a good friend, being good at sports and being funny or popular. But kids in the 12- to 14 group have different criteria: clothes come first, then "being popular" and third, good looks. "This is a little bit sad," observes Wolf, "but it also shows parents what they're up against if they're trying to draw the line on certain clothes." The emphasis on having the right stuff to wear...
NICE NO LONGER The IRS is unplugging a popular charitable-giving scheme that is also a way to buy life insurance. Thousands of taxpayers have been writing off donations to charities that agree to use the money to buy life insurance for the donors and later split the benefits with their heirs. No longer. The IRS may subject taxpayers who use such a "charitable split trust" to a 20% underpayment penalty and may yank the tax-exempt status of participating charities...