Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...useful potion or medication." He openly questioned whether the unified Bosnia foreseen in the treaty will "truly materialize or will it simply remain something on paper?" Croatian President Franjo Tudjman traced the roots of the crisis in Bosnia back more than 15 centuries to "the breakup between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire," obviously implying that the wounds cannot be healed quickly. Bill Clinton, who presided in fact if not in name, was far more upbeat. He predicted that "soon the Bosnian people will see for themselves the awesome potential of people to turn from conflict...
...real-life outbreak of the dread virus in Zaire. Dormant for 16 years, the disease swept through the Central African country, causing gruesome hemorrhagic fevers and killing at least 244 people (many of them health-care workers) before going underground again. At year's end, Ebola resurfaced in western Africa, this time in the Ivory Coast and possibly Liberia...
That's the law in Israel, where civilization goes back at least 5,000 years and where a major archaeological find could be lurking under any given square foot of real estate. Just about every empire since the beginning of Western history has occupied these lands, or fought over them, or at least passed through - Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Turks, Crusaders - leaving behind buildings or burial places or artifacts. Which is why there were about 300 active digs this year in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza - an area no bigger than New Jersey. (See 10 surprising facts about...
...almost everyone has a stake in Scripture. Jewish and Christian ultraconservatives don't like hearing that parts of the Bible could be fictional. Atheists can't wait to prove that the whole thing is a fairy tale. And even for the moderate majority, the Bible underlies so much of Western culture that it matters a great deal whether its narratives are grounded in truth...
Cornell (2-2) played an unexpectedly abbreviated schedule this week. The Big Red beat up on Lehigh 82-61, it but had its Saturday matchup at Buffalo postponed due to a massive snowstorm that buried Western New York under three-and-a-half feet of snow. The break could benefit Cornell as it prepares to host Adonal Joyle and Colgate this weekend before taking off to face LSU in New Orleans after Christmas...