Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ministry of Public Security reportedly identified Christmas as a day for potential unrest because the celebrations bring groups of people together. The Workers' Daily, one of China's government-owned newspapers, criticized what it called the "Christmas craze" and gave a stiff warning to youths who "madly go after Western life-styles...
When the ghastly scene was discovered, the day before Christmas Eve, much of appalled Western Europe was compelled to ask--again--Why? The winter solstice ritual enacted about an hour's drive from the site of the glittering 1992 Winter Olympics reprised similar cult sacrifices that took place 14 months earlier. And among the victims were some of the most privileged, responsible members of society. Besides the police officers, the woman psychotherapist and an architect, the dead included Patrick Vuarnet, the 27-year-old son of 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, best known today for his line...
Methamphetamine use is especially prevalent in Western states. Meth-related hospital admissions rose 366% over 10 years in California. Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, reports methamphetamine-linked crimes have jumped almost 400% in three years. And the drug is spreading rapidly across the U.S. In recent months, officials have seized huge shipments of methamphetamine originating in Mississippi and Tennessee...
Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller resigned, and the country's two secular, pro-Western center-right parties scrambled to form an unlikely coalition, after the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party won Turkey's parliamentary elections with 21% of the vote. Although Ciller's True Path Party and the Motherland Party have long been bitter foes, the victory by the Islamists was enough to spur the former enemies to try to cooperate in forming a government. All other major parties have rejected the idea of creating a coalition with Welfare...
...have sacrificed our bodies without ill effects that anyone admits to. Western civilization may founder, but olestra won't be the cause. On the way home, there is a Sabrett cart near the Time & Life Building. I buy a hot dog for an urgently needed grease...