Word: westernness
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...important to note that the use of the term "alternative medicine" although the most popularly used designation, is problematic for two reasons. First, it carries overtones of Western cultural hegemony by labeling all therapies and treatments outside the Western paradigm "alternative." In fact, most of these "alternative" practices constitute official, mainstream medicine in many other countries. The WHO estimates that more than 80 percent of population in developing countries use alternative therapies as a standard, everyday from of medicine...
...basics. What does he feel he can say unequivocally about the shroud? "Based on medical evidence and other information, the image seems to be someone crucified in the manner of Christ." As opposed, he means, to the manner in which the Crucifixion has traditionally been depicted in Western art. "The nail wounds in the hands go through the wrists, not the palms," consistent with what little we now know about the gory practice in the Roman Empire of the 1st century. "And those are real blood flows," following laws of physiognomy that were unknown to doctors or painters either...
...would be affected if the swatch were atypical or contaminated. The mantra for this position, quoted fervently by shroud proponents who might otherwise have little to do with one another, is that "the tests could have been precise without being accurate." Chemist Alan Adler, an emeritus professor at Western Connecticut State University who has worked on the shroud, takes this possibility very seriously. "The sample used for dating," he asserts, "came from an area that is water-stained and scorched, and the edge is back-woven, indicating repair"--not from a clean portion, as the dating team insists. Adler says...
...Fellowship hall across town and was catered by Food Not Bombs, a group that collects unused groceries from supermarkets and restaurants to be served to the homeless. Workshops on legal defenses against FCC equipment seizures and on how to send programs over the Internet drew guerrilla broadcasters from eight Western and Midwestern states--mirroring a similar East Coast conference held in Philadelphia a week earlier...
Leave Africa alone! Let the Africans decide the scale of their economies, the most appropriate technologies to use and the level of industrialism that is desirable. Buy their products, yes. Offer favorable terms of trade, yes. But don't organize their economies for them by offering Western models of unlimited growth in a finite environment. Multinational corporations that do business in Africa should guarantee that most of the benefits go to Africans. MARK HACKLER Glenview...