Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...those who want to take home more than snapshots, each country has something special. It is fun browsing through art shops in Poland and pottery and glassware stores in Czechoslovakia. The Hungarian state record company presses high-quality classical records that can be bought for about half of what they would cost in the West. Hungarian wine is also worth the money, as is Bulgarian. In the villages west of Cluj, delicately embroidered tablecloths are sold for the equivalent of a few dollars...
Many adults like McDonald's for its convenience, but children have a special devotion. The sight of the Golden Arches seems to send kids' blood racing. Lately, though, some disillusioned youngsters have been insisting on eating elsewhere. A few have even been picketing McDonald's stores. To urge a boycott of the company's outlets, Kurtiz Schneid, a New Jersey high school student, demonstrated in front of the United Nations dressed as "Ronald McToxic." His message: "The planet deserves a break today...
...young activist filed the first administrative appeal in the Northwest against a Forest Service timber sale. By 1988 he was masterminding 220 separate appeals in a single month, creating a legal logjam. The tactic proved so costly to industry that a House committee summoned Kerr to Washington for a special hearing, at which he was attacked by Oregon Representative Bob Smith, among others. Yet by raising his profile and drawing national attention to the issue, the politicians unwittingly played into Kerr's hands...
Mandela holds a special place in the feelings of American civil rights campaigners, liberals and black activists. During the Reagan years, when such forces were dispirited and often divided, opposition to apartheid and support for Mandela provided them with a unifying passion. No leader since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has brought together such a diverse coalition in the fight against racial injustice...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...