Word: taboo
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...itself," says Sabanci, adding, "The Turkey that will enter the European Union is not the Turkey we have today." But there's still a yawning gap between that putative future Turkey and today's reality. The conference was the first public discussion of a topic that has been taboo in Turkey for more than 80 years. Participants included an 80-year-old former minister, whose description of what happened to his home town of Tokat - its Armenian population reduced in a decade from 8,800 to 700 - left many attendees in tears. "There was a real sense of moral responsibility...
First and foremost, trans-fat is out. Everything from muffins to sour cream coffee cake to pancakes is free from trans-fat. In the most current health craze, this partially hydrogenated oil is as forbidden and taboo as bread to Atkins dieters. The Tater Tot is back in full force—but Napoleon Dynamite disciples, be warned: your “Tots” are now trans-fat free and have assumed the alter-ego of “Golden Nugget...
...defend his record before the citizenry against rival candidates. Mubarak has been hop-scotching around the country, telling crowds, "I stand before you asking for your endorsement." Close on his heels, nine challengers have been giving raucous speeches, sometimes accusing him of tyranny and corruption, strictly taboo accusations less than a year ago. "The genie is out of the bottle," Saadeddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist once imprisoned for his pro-democracy activities, said in a TIME interview. "There is no way this regime can maintain one-man rule...
...successful voice-over career, receiving a Grammy Award nomination for best spoken-word album for children for The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh. died. susan gordon lydon, 61, feminist writer and editor whose landmark 1970 essay for Ramparts magazine, "The Politics of Orgasm," turned a previously taboo subject into a public debate; of cancer; in Florida. She had the idea after listening to women's groups and realizing that many had faked orgasm but were afraid to discuss it. The topic, said a Ramparts editor, quickly ballooned from "a giggle to a cause." died. bruce bolt, 75, pioneer...
DIED. SUSAN GORDON LYDON, 61, feminist writer and editor whose landmark 1970 essay for Ramparts magazine, "The Politics of Orgasm," turned a previously taboo subject into a public debate; of cancer; in Boca Raton, Fla. She came up with the idea after listening to women's groups and realizing that many had faked orgasm but were afraid to discuss it. The topic, said a Ramparts editor, quickly ballooned from "a giggle to a cause," and her essay became a staple of many women's studies courses...