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The media's role in turning up the volume on Balkan hate

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One of the root causes of the ongoing conflict in the former Yugoslavia was the incessant barrage of nationalist rhetoric broadcast by Serb leaders. These broadcasts inflamed nationalist passions and prompted Serb minorities in Croatia and Bosnia to start a war.

Author: Toffler, Alvin, Toffler, Heidi
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1995
Causes of, Practice, Wars, Media coverage, War, Mass media, Nationalism

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Confessions of a health food junkie

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An alternative medicine physician relates his experience in overcoming orthorexia, which is the abnormal fixation of eating healthy foods. He shares that an unorthodox monk helped him by letting him eat foods such as pizza and banana split.

Author: Bratman, Steven
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1998
Management, Physicians, Medical professions, Diet therapy, Health attitudes

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Why I hate people: confessions of a misanthrope

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People who hate the members of humanity usually start hating other people way back in their childhood years. During those times their mothers would rationalize their misanthropic streaks by telling people they are just shy.

Author: King, Florence
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1993
Cynicism

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