Word: thirsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumption and the results of that consumption. We are constantly bombarded by mixed messages. Scrawny, undernourished models peek out from billboards adjacent to giant signs announcing the return of Wendy's Bacon Mushroom Melt. We are told to "Have it your way!" "Super size it!" and "Obey your thirst!" But mixed in with the chorus of "Consume, consume!" are the plaintive cries to "Stop the insanity!" Is it any surprise we wash down our Big Macs with Diet Cokes? The only people satisfying the insatiable needs of the capitalist machine and at the same time pleasing the thin-obsessed society...
Nevertheless, many Chinese are looking to Buddhism, Taoism and even brand-new religions to slake a thirst that all the Cokes in the world won't abate. Explains William T. Liu, an American sociologist working in Singapore: "Chinese communism is a system of economic development, but there is no theology to explain what people should believe in. China is very fertile ground for any religion right...
Susan Seacrest peers down into the huge gloom of well No. 2, which penetrates 90 ft. into the Platte Aquifer. As her eyes catch the gleam of water destined to salve the thirst of people in Lincoln, Neb., 20 miles away, she begins to jump up and down in the heat of a summer afternoon. "This is so cool!" she exults. "I get so excited when I'm around groundwater...
...fact remains that Israel does control a disproportionate amount of the West Bank underground aquifers (80 percent), a major source of drinking and irrigation water in the region. Israel also has more advanced agricultural and technological needs for this water. Still, many of Israel's neighbors blame their daily thirst, or at least fear that their wells will soon run dry, on the territorial nature of the Jewish state. Classic anti-Israel rhetoric. Israel still looms in the popular imagination as the capitalistic conquistadors. By all accounts, this is an unfair charge but proof that resentment and bitterness still exists...
Suddenly ecotourism is the new global orthodoxy--a panacea to save threatened environments, address poverty and salve the conscience of well-heeled travelers, as well as satisfy a growing thirst for closer contact with nature. Groups such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, Earthwatch and Discovery Initiatives now share the jungle and savannah with more conventional operators. Major travel companies, hotels and airlines have jumped on the bandwagon with scores of environmentally friendly initiatives. "Consumers are currently very sensitive to the environment, and you've got to take that into account," says Jacques Maillot, CEO of Nouvelles Frontieres, France...