Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During the late 1960s, we began to realize the earthly Jerusalem," Fein said. "The first time I went through Jerusalem, I was expecting this 'heavenly' place but ended up touring the red-light district," he said...
...1950s, Dudley finally gained a house master, and a decade later, it was given full house status and a physical plant based in Lehman Hall. The 1960s also witnessed another shift in house demographics--at this time, waves of boarding school graduates decided to leave structured living environments and live off campus...
JACKSON has always proved himself courageous. He marched alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s--a movement that his current rivals were alarmingly distant from. Today, Jackson is the only candidate who openly welcomes gays and lesbians into his coalition, welcoming to Congress the current Lesbian and Gay Rights Bill, which forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation. On the AIDS question, Jackson advocates more federal funding for research and treatment. Only Jackson, among all the presidential candidates, marched in last year's gay march on Washington...
...deep sense of irony comes over Washington Correspondent Elaine Shannon when she reports, as she did for this week's cover stories, on the growing power of drug traffickers. "In the 1960s," she says, "my generation marched for civil rights and to end the Viet Nam War. We were well educated, open, idealistic, progressive." Then, she adds, "my generation discovered drugs. I saw friends die from overdoses, go to jail for drug peddling or, if they were lucky, just burn out." Shannon finds it especially painful that millions of peace-loving, privileged young Americans provide the revenues that have allowed...
Back in the bad old 1960s, vegetarianism may have had to do with long hair, pacifism and sympathy for the plight of livestock, but today it has taken a more pragmatic turn. The new breed of upscale vegetarian is giving up meat, red meat in particular, because of the belief that it is unhealthy. The real issue is that red meat ranks high among sources of fat in the U.S. diet. Says Dr. Sherwood Gorbach, professor of community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent...