Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western policymakers are worried that the kingdom's current economic slump is providing new recruits to the ranks of the opposition. Lower oil prices, huge government debts and the staggering $60 billion cost of the war have combined to cut Saudi Arabia's per capita income in half. The soaring population is generating a wave of young, middle-class urbanites who are coming out of strictly religious universities to find there are no jobs for them. Unemployment among young people may be as high as 25%. Set these conditions against the high living and charges of corruption in the House...
...when my research brought me to the State House Library to find information on the Massachusetts public school system. After gathering numerous statistics and journal articles, I decided to walk to J.P. Licks, an ice cream parlor on Newbury Street, which probably has the best frozen yogurt in the Western Hemisphere...
...Eastern Montana and the Western Dakotas sympathize with those enduring the drought in Texas [NATION, June 10]. We suffered through 12 years of drought, from 1980 to 1991. Old-timers said it was worse than the '30s. Our well-built houses could not keep out the dust; winters brought us dirt drifts instead of snowdrifts. In 1988 we never pulled a combine into the field. Our county lost 20% of its population and 75% of the cattle herds. Isn't it interesting that it takes the Freemen to get publicity for this part of the country? CAROL R. BRENDEN Scobey...
...some the combination of faith and healing is not so much a novelty as a welcome recapitulation of the last Western tradition to see them as part of one overarching cosmology. Says Sister Judian Breitenbach, a Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ nun who heads the Healing Arts Center in Mishawaka, Illinois: "We're moving toward the integration of the East and West, and it's happening through health care." A fan of Chopra's, she sees no conflicts between the new and the old age: "People are so uptight about this kind of thing. We used to call it trust...
...learned that his own father was taking Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional Indian herbal cure, for a heart condition. The doctor disapproved. "His success in the system demanded his belief in the system," Chopra writes, and from London he "demanded that my grandfather abandon this nonsense and call in a Western-style heart specialist." The old man did, "and died two weeks later...