Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adventure and extreme sports like BASE jumping, snowboarding, ice climbing, skateboarding and paragliding is merely the most vivid manifestation of this new national behavior. Investors once content to buy stocks and hold them quit their day jobs to become day traders, making volatile careers of risk taking. Even our social behavior has tilted toward the treacherous, with unprotected sex on the upswing and hard drugs like heroin the choice of the chic as well as the junkies. In ways many of us take for granted, we engage in risks our parents would have shunned and our grandparents would have dismissed...
CHEERS! You may not need Dutch courage after all. Research on patients with "social phobia"--a disorder that leaves people terrified of everyday human interaction--shows that the idea of drinking may relieve anxiety just as well as actual drinking does. Patients in a study who thought they were guzzling vodka prior to speaking in public reported less fear and anxiety than those who thought they were handed a placebo--regardless of what was in the glass...
Though the bestial community is extremely diverse, embracing individuals from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds, we share a common experience of oppression and misunderstanding. We have been marginalized by an anthroposexist society solely on the basis of whom we choose to love. Because we refuse to form relationships according to socially constructed categories such as "species," we represent a fundamental challenge to the institutions and assumptions of specialist, theriophobic Western culture...
...America bureau chief Tim McGirk. But enthused though they may be by Chavez's promise to share the country?s oil wealth with the impoverished majority, they may be disappointed in him in the long run. "Chavez may be able to use oil revenues to provide health, education and social services to the poor, but at the end of the day he still has to find jobs for them," says McGirk. "And that requires foreign investment." By tearing up the constitution, dissolving parliament and threatening to review contracts made by his predecessors, Chavez isn?t exactly going to have investors...
...Whereas in the 1980s, African-Americans accounted for 25 percent of new AIDS cases, Latinos for 14 percent and women for 8 percent, by last year African-Americans accounted for 45 percent of new AIDS cases, Latinos for 22 percent and women for 23 percent. "In some communities the social message hasn?t gotten out and there?s a much higher incidence of risky behavior," says Horowitz. "The challenge for public health officials is to find ways of tailoring the AIDS-prevention message in ways that make such subgroups more receptive." But with two thirds of new AIDS cases...