Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saudi Arabia and Mongolia. The region's conservative nature makes it harder to probe delicate issues, but that hasn't stopped the network. Despite Chinese reticence toward discussing politics, MTV Asia veejay Rita Tsang got Chinese and Hong Kong teens to express candid opinions in "Changing Hands," a segment about the crown colony's 1997 return to China, beamed by satellite and cable into about five million Chinese homes. " AIDS at Your Doorstep" covered the disease and safe sex -- a bold move in places like South Korea, where an official told the network "there is no AIDS because there...
While each affiliate chooses its issues according to regional importance, they all convey a bedrock belief in tolerance, often attacking their subjects with in-your-face frankness. A recent MTV Europe news segment focused on Russian homophobia. Another network might have opted for tactfully restrained graphics, two men holding hands, perhaps, but the MTV piece started with a passionate on-the-mouth male kiss...
...movement he has led. Evangelical Protestantism has triumphed over other, sugarcoated brands, not least because his sincerity and his probity protected his movement from the stain spread by the moral and financial disasters of other high-wattage clerics. New studies show that . Evangelical church bodies are the largest segment in American religion in active membership, and the most committed...
...safety. At its most basic level, society is intended to safeguard its members from the chaos of the state of nature. But can life in many urban areas really be described as anything other than "nasty, brutish and short?" In this context, it is hardly surprising that a whole segment of the population feels disconnected from society, a society that cannot or will not protect them...
...thought much about this dilemma back when AIDS was considered a disease of unmarried homosexual men. Now women are the fastest-growing segment of the AIDS population. From 1991 to 1992 the number of new cases among women jumped 10%, compared with 2.5% for men. Some of these women have husbands or boyfriends who are bisexual; others pick up the virus because they or their lovers are drug addicts who use contaminated needles. The majority have children...