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...teenage values that has spread beyond the conservative, middle-class Los Angeles suburb of Lakewood. While denying charges ranging from sexual molestation to rape, the group of 20 to 30 youths has proudly owned up to a competition in which they scored points each time they had a sexual conquest. Their seeming lack of regard for the girls they were scoring upon shocked many Lakewood residents, as did the widespread perception of the boys as heroes and the girls as troublemakers. The debate set men against women and students against each other as everyone tried to draw the lines between...
...soil erosion in the Patzcuaro basin, an area of southwestern Mexico that was a center of pre-Hispanic civilization. Sediment samples from the lake revealed that erosion rates were at least as high before as after the Spaniards' arrival. In fact, erosion appears to have fallen off after the conquest. The conclusion: a return to traditional farming methods is no guarantee of a return to Eden...
When the early Germanic tribes first accepted Christianity, they did so only after altering the religion to accommodate their view of the world. Until Charlemagne's conquest and reconversion of Germany eradicated this so-called "Aryan heresy," German Christianity had little in common with the message of universal fraternity fundamental to its mother religion. Today, another world religion has become the victim of a similar attempt at distortion...
...that he will peacefully step aside is belied by the name he took for himself several years after he seized power in the 1960s: Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (the all powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, shall go from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake...
...their passion for negotiated settlements, Vance and Owen have forgotten that leaders like Milosevic view negotiations as solely a means of continuing their conquest. The peace talks are convenient for the Serbian leader now because his forces have already captured two-thirds of Bosnia. Now, he is looking for a way to secure those gains while defusing the pressure for military action...