Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think he's the first Chinese leader who presented Western humor," said Tam Wai Yi, deputy China editor for TVB News, a Hong Kong television station...
...Soros donations that will have the most impact are the ones that "focus on very small things, particularly areas that we don't contribute to," says an official with the U.S. Agency for International Development. For example, AID workers are delighted that Soros wants to put more Western publications in Russian libraries and hook up more schools and hospitals to the Internet, projects that Russian officials have begged Washington to fund. He plans to set up desperately needed training programs for business managers, lawyers and local government officials. And Soros has begun consulting with U.S. health officials on funding tuberculosis...
...alternative route because they have nowhere else to turn. "By the time they come to me, the choices are pretty much either try alternative medicine or put the animal to sleep," says Susan Wynn, a veterinarian in Atlanta. Wynn, like all other licensed vets, was thoroughly grounded in Western medicine before she turned to unconventional treatments. Some owners seek alternative pet care because they use it for themselves. Other humans have even started taking their pets' medicine. Glucosamine and chondroiton sulfate, two compounds that have been used for years to relieve stiff joints in dogs, are currently enjoying a vogue...
...holistic vet, to be sensitive to your clients' needs and to deliver whatever level of New Age exoticism they're comfortable with. Although veterinarian John Limehouse of Toluca Lake, Calif., is partial to traditional Chinese and homeopathic treatments, he tends to diagnose and describe his patients' symptoms in familiar Western terms. Sometimes it's easier to tell an owner that a dog has irritable bowel syndrome, he says, than to invoke the Chinese concept of "life force" and explain that an animal has a "deficiency...
TUESDAY, JUNE 24, EVENING Vasili Tsibliyev had more on his mind than eating his dinner. The Mir workday was over, and except for a few things that had to be powered down or mopped up, the crew had the evening to themselves. This meant they could linger over a Western-style meal of stew or beef at a tiny table in the main module--a welcome relief from the traditional Russian fare of warm borsch and jellied perch...