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...Mark, the Philadelphia show, which runs through Aug. 6 and then moves to Fort Wayne, Ind., New York City and San Francisco, is a homecoming. In the early 1960s she studied painting and art history at the University of Pennsylvania, then discovered that studio work was too solitary. The camera got her out of the house and onto the street, which it turns out is where she belongs. At age 60, Mark is now one of the pre-eminent American photographers. In the 26 years since the appearance of her first book of photographs, Passport, she has found...
China changes the meaning of being a superpower. At present a superpower is a country with a big economy and global military reach. The word was popularized in the 1960s to fit the U.S., the only holder of the title today. China will have neither the material wealth of the U.S., nor its global military reach. But looking at the rise of China through the narrow framework of numbers of automobiles or Osprey helicopters doesn't come to grips with the country's sources of power. Defining a superpower in terms of economic and military size leaves out the power...
...hallmark of productive work had to be beaten into a mostly balky peasantry in Europe, even while such dedication flourished under Confucianism. Today the work ethic in China puts the U.S. to shame. Imagine what will happen when technology and innovation join with what some U.S. experts in the 1960s contemptuously called "ant labor" in China...
When Israel was working on a secret nuclear program in the 1960s, satirist Tom Lehrer captured the rationale succinctly: "'The Lord's our shepherd,' says the psalm, but just in case, we better get a bomb." Israel was following the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China. India joined the club too, followed eventually by Pakistan. And today North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya are knocking at the door...
...Most of the time such behavior means little--just adolescents going through the motions of growing up. But for more than 2,000 American teenagers who end their lives each year, these are the signs of impending disaster. The suicide rate for adolescents has more than doubled since the 1960s. So the challenge for parents is to be able to tell the difference between normal teen angst and terminal despair...