Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teachings of various "mind over matter" schools of medicine have traditionally been viewed with extreme skepticism by the Western medical extablishment. Especially in Boston, such dogma smacks of Mary Baker Eddy s Christian Science Movement (especially in the light of recent highly publicized cases where Christian Scientist parents let their children die for want of medical care). Up until the 1960s, the accepted model of how pain worked was the one proposed by Descartes in the 17th Century. According to Descartes, a painful sensation is strictly a physical and mechanical phenomenon, as simple as pressing a piano key and getting...
...first the Crimson has to get through Fresno State, the Western Athletic Conference champions...
...Obviously, Western `Goebbels' machinery tries in short runs and with shock therapy to achieve a moment effect on TV in order to provide some more points for the political top in Washington and urgently achieve some short-run criminal aim for which they need some cover in order to prevent the publicity to understand what they actually...
This is hardly the only diatribe against the Western press you'll find on the Tanjug wire. A good percentage of the news agency's articles attack stories in the British and American media, particularly those on CNN, which Tanjug says is assuming "a leading role in the new propaganda undertaking...
Milosevic is not stupid, and his minions at the Ministry of Information are directing their wrath at the Western media for a good reason. The nations at war today have less control over the information their citizens are receiving than ever before. Milosevic has tried to cut off independent and opposition media the traditional way--by revoking their licenses and using intimidation and assault--but there is nothing he can do to control Internet media sources save trying to discredit them. Radio B92, the independent radio station that has made so much trouble for the government since the anti-Milosevic...