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...teachers junior year talked a lot about Brazil. He would say, 'A lot of coffee is grown in Brazil, but do you think that people in Brzil actually drink it?' I stopped drinking coffee after that. I just became a lot more conscious about farming issues," Bar Am says...
...People are just more aware and more conscious of how they're spending their money," she says. "They'll go somewhere where the prices are lower rather than coming here. There seems to be more of an effort to save money in areas where people used to be frivolous...
When President Bush unveiled his first budget on Monday, some socially conscious people were probably disappointed to see that military spending rose by $14 billion to an astronomical $310.5 billion. But they should not be disappointed. We need to spend more money on the military. Much more. Perhaps on the order of tens of billions of dollars...
...always, we welcome your comments by letter or e-mail letters@time.com) And to find Web resources on global warming or see how eco-conscious you really are, go to time.com...
...this happened was over 200 years ago. Then it was Great Britain that was the superpower, flexing its muscles across the globe, and imposing its sense of its own destiny on the world. China, however, was proving stubborn, intensely aware of the vulnerability of its borders and equally self-conscious about its prestige. The reigning Qianlong emperor, as part of the process of expanding and consolidating China's borders, had also restricted trade with the Western powers to a small perimeter outside the city walls of Canton. The British chafed at this limitation, and sought a wider zone of commercial...