Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...services actually work closely together on issues such as terrorism and money laundering, and a quiet word or a discreet expulsion might have sufficed if, indeed, there was espionage under way. But that would be to miss a domestic political opportunity. "The atmosphere in Russian politics is increasingly anti-Western," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "And you can generate political capital by saying ?Washington is up to its old tricks by expanding NATO, reviving Star Wars and now spying on Moscow,? and then taking a hard line against it." Under those circumstances, weeding out a Western ?spy? is something...
...poles and the moon. Forced diasporas for populations in Africa, North America, Europe and elsewhere. Journeys across oceans for wars and police actions, and trips home in body bags. Forays around southern capes in tall ships and across Eurasia in caravans. And just as this millennium is a Western conceit, the story of the past thousand years is largely the story of the tourism of Western peoples over the span of the earth, to encroach on and economically dominate the rest of the world. If fewer representatives of the wealthiest peoples scatter to the shrines and monuments of the cultures...
...museum show, Schildkrout and her colleagues focus on five types of bod-mod: tattooing, scarring, piercing, painting and shaping. And while some examples may seem bizarre to Western eyes, says Schildkrout, "we want people to realize that everyone, including themselves, performs some form of transformation. We color our hair, wear makeup, put on clothes, have plastic surgery...
...garbage recycling [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]: I suggest you take a look at the percentage of material that many European countries are managing to recycle. Dilbeek, a commune in the western suburb of Brussels, managed to cut its garbage 70%. In the area where I live, we aim to reduce our garbage to 395 lbs. per person per year; that is 25% of what the average American citizen produces. There is no doubt that goal will be reached pretty soon. EMMANUEL DE BROUX Leignon, Belgium...
...WESTERN STUDENTS A Colorado billionaire is leaving most of his fortune to fund college scholarships for poor kids in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah. The Bill Daniels Fund, named after the cable TV mogul, will receive most of his $1.1 billion estate and will become Colorado's largest charity upon his death...