Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubt that many people had heard of Neelan or the LTTE before the suicide-bombing. I'm the American-born daughter of two Sri Lankan Tamils. I seek out Sri Lankan news. And although my parents have told me about the LTTE my whole life, I had never, until his death, heard of Neelan Tiruchelvam. How is this possible...
...administrative head, of the second largest temple in Varanasi, the main destination for Hindu pilgrims in India, Mishra is a very important man. Since the 16th century, the job has passed from father to eldest son. Devotees scramble to touch his feet, traders whisper their business hopes, and students seek his blessing before final exams. As a child he learned the sacred chants and rites--including the importance of a daily dip in the Ganges, the river that Hindus worship for its purity. Mishra cups his hands to scoop up water and lifts it to his lips. But unlike...
...surprise, says TIME science and health contributor Fred Golden. "This is what managed care is all about: parceling less care to more people." In such a system doctors will not be able to do all that they want and patients will not be able to obtain all that they seek. "When doctors were in control," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "costs escalated. To control costs, some care has to be denied." Which is why the ongoing debates on Capitol Hill about managed care are currently stalemated: Neither party is able to come up with a for-profit system that...
Stoical about scandalmongering books about his family and gossip-column misinformation about himself, he was as determined as his mother to protect his personal privacy. That is why he took up flying. When he traveled on commercial aircraft, fellow passengers would ask questions, seek autographs, exchange memories. He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden. Once he got his flying license, he seemed a liberated man, free to travel as he wished without superfluous demands on time and energy...
...Norman Lear produced ABC's AKA Pablo in 1984, but says "the interest simply hasn't been there" for a Latino program since. Even the networks' critics largely blame not blind Klansmanship but the belief that white viewers are key to the ratings and ad bucks that big broadcasters seek. "They think about the market," says Screen Actors Guild president Richard Masur, "and you have to address them in those terms." But a scarcity of minority executives and the pigeonholing of minority writers don't help. "Programmers and executives know Latinos only as people they see in their kitchens...