Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are 1,500 members dispersed into 21 chapters, or what Slow Food poetically calls convivia, derived from the Latin word meaning festive. Lately many convivia have been forced to turn away people lest the groups risk losing their intimacy. Petrini sees promise in such American phenomena as the rise of microbreweries in a market long dominated by a handful of beer conglomerates. He points out that with its immigrant influences and agricultural diversity, the U.S. should be hospitable to spreading the Slow Food philosophy. "Europeans are skilled at defending their heritage," he says, "but Americans also have a culinary...
...studios, our books are usually all controlled, in one way or another, by the same few multimedia enterprises. Perhaps it would be a stretch to say that Star Wars is responsible for this trend, the centralization of pop culture. But it at least laid the foundation for this modern phenomena by inaugurating a perhaps more important process: the unification of pop culture...
...Both Dr. Katz and Dr. Coley are extremely hesitant to suggest that RSIs are not predominantly mechanical, ergonomic phenomena. For Dr. Katz, there is a danger in implying that the disorder is a psychological one. "There is just as much evidence for biological causation as for most other disorders and more than some." As for the seemingly provincial nature of disease, Dr. Coley responds that diseases often refuse to conform to what we would see as rational patterns. "We had 22 cases of whooping cough this year. It was just one of those blips you see as a clinician...
...more insidious. We look into our souls, and much like Dorian Gray's portrait, do not like the rancor and decay we see within. We then compound our errors by speaking different names for our actions, filling in well with the trends of political correctness. Witness the phenomena of "collateral damage" and selective reduction...
Thus he rails in speeches against the menace of a "sixth extinction," one unlike the prior five extinction spasms, the last of which came 66 million years ago. Those were brought about by natural phenomena. When it occurs, the sixth mass extinction of living organisms will be brought about by people, by a mushrooming population that has doubled in 40 years, to 6 billion, and by human carelessness and commerce. In the 21st century, which Raven would like to see called "the age of biology," he says we must learn to "master the diversity of living organisms...