Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...describe the 1968 Soviet intervention as an invasion instead of as a "counterrevolution" to which the Soviets "gave brotherly assistance." Teachers in Hungary can openly discuss the 1956 uprising for the first time since the event occurred. At the elite Moscow Higher Party School, which trains apparatchiks to run local and regional party committees, instructors express thoughts that would have been considered heresy only a few years ago. "I tell the Cuban students, 'Castro is great, but he won't last forever -- learn democratic methods,' " says professor Yuri Aksyutin...
...Author Amos Elon has written that Jerusalem may soon become a mere "museum" for visitors, bereft of Christianity as a "living religion." A clergyman in the city's withering Catholic community agrees: "I am afraid that the day will come when we will have the Christian holy places without local Christians." Church experts estimate that Jerusalem has 9,000 resident Christians, one-third of the total at Israel's founding. The toehold was further weakened last week when 150 Jews moved into homes in the traditionally Christian quarter of the Old City, touching off a raucous street protest...
...thinking about the food piling up on their trays. Not Brian Styers, a 16- year-old honors student. He is thinking about the trays themselves -- and the nondegradable plastic used to make them. Bothered by the fact that school- issued Styrofoam trays, plates and cups were choking the local landfill, Styers and a dozen or so like-minded students began marching through the cafeteria earlier this year carrying reusable dishes brought from home. They were branded "tree huggers" and "crazy," but Styers and his friends persisted. They did their homework, figuring the cost of recycling schemes. They tipped...
...opens another chapter in the growing clamor of public opposition to the marketing of alcohol as well as tobacco. The emotional ground swell against the advertising of vices is fueled by a powerful combination of health consciousness, consumer activism and community pride. In New York City, Chicago and Dallas local residents have been whitewashing inner-city billboards to obliterate the images of such products as cigarettes and Cognac...
...drinking age is 21 in all 50 states, many students fall under the limit. Brewers often engage in promotions that fail to distinguish among students of different ages. Miller Brewing, for example, sponsors Friday afternoon beer bashes for 2,000 students at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Until local high schools complained that their students were tanking up at the free pours, university officials made little effort to screen participants...