Word: westernizes
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Some days all I want to do when I get home is plop down in front of the TV set and let my brain go blank. You probably know the feeling. But if two groups of neurologists--from University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio--are right, we may all live to regret our tube-trolling ways. At a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology last week, they reported that people who remain active outside of work by taking up such stimulating activities as painting, gardening or playing a musical instrument are three times less likely...
...Freetown's defenders. And the U.S. has promised to fly in anybody willing to fight as long as they're not American, and also to send Jesse Jackson back to the region to talk to anyone who'll listen. But it's patently clear that the peace that Western leaders had hoped would solve the problem cannot be saved. Once Freetown is secured, the international community will face some brutal choices: Either the West will have to risk some of its own resources in a war to destroy Sankoh's forces and bring him to justice, or it will have...
This peacekeeping failure is yet another one in a long string caused by a lack of commitment by the United States and other Western countries to the United Nations. The current system of U.N. peacekeeping is clearly ineffective. Paying countries in the region to send untrained and unarmed troops to mediate can only result in disaster. These forces have neither the power nor the motivation to deal with patriotic guerilla armies...
...princess also blamed the U.S. and Western Europe for their hesitancy to help Romania, namely failing to include it in NATO...
...West has always had bigger problems to deal with," she said, adding that now is a critical time for Western assistance and interest in Romania and the region...