Word: phenomenon
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Despite my personal dislike for the salon-tanning phenomenon, thousands of people continue to frequent tanning salons. The government has taken steps to restrict tanning bed use, like introducing a tax on tanning, and the Food and Drug Administration may even go further to ban those under 18 from tanning bed use. While the tanning bed tax is a great step in the right direction towards discouraging people from using these harmful devices, the FDA’s potential ban on minors’ use of them seems like an overstepping of boundaries because of its infringement of individual rights...
Still, the Hutaree are a symptom of the continuing militia phenomenon, one that seems to have gained impetus since the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the U.S. The Southern Poverty Law Center says that last year alone, the number of patriot and militia groups increased 244%, to 512. Though not necessarily racist, such groups fiercely oppose the federal government. In recent weeks, the health care debate seems to have fueled antigovernment sentiment that is far different from the last noticeable rise in extremist-group activity, after the 1992 election of Bill Clinton. "These shifts...
...It’s honestly a very scary phenomenon,” said Paul J. Barreira, director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling for University Health Services. “I think it only proves the point that you can have a terrific suicide prevention program and a terrific campaign to care for the community, but this phenomenon can happen anyway...
...Many of the Tea Party movement's gripes are common complaints about government. But let's not sugarcoat what the people are at the core of this phenomenon: ultra-nationalist, right-wing Christian, militant, antigovernment, disproportionately Southern, overwhelmingly white, prone to conspiracy theories and slanderous toward a liberal African American over offenses they silently tolerated from a white conservative. Meet the 21st century Klan. Thomas Quinn Los Angeles...
...China's Megatrends is the latest addition to John Naisbitt's Megatrends franchise, a series of middlebrow works that offer extremely generalized social and economic predictions. The first Megatrends (1982) was a publishing phenomenon that sold over 9 million copies and spent two years on the New York Times best-seller list. It was followed by Megatrends 2000 (1990), Megatrends for Women (1992) and Megatrends Asia (1996). But although almost 30 researchers worked on China's Megatrends, it has all the hallmarks of a glib, bolt-on extension to the juggernaut. It is breathtaking in its simplistic, groveling...