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...popular rock 'n roll tune from the 1960s, "Here they come...from all over the world," seems an appropriate description of the arrivals of competitiors and spectators for the 27th annual Head of the Charles...
...page attack in April of 1990. The Journal characterized Visconti's center as part of a disguised New Age movement. These critics say the technology never developed from New Age exuberance into documented science. Rather, they charge that what began as part of the human-possibilities excitement of the 1960s has simply become an individual money-making strategy of the 1980s...
...Gradually between the 1940s and the 1960s, the word 'dependent' went from defining the children to their poor mothers," she said. "Today, although Blacks are a minority of welfare recipients, the Black woman has become a symbol of dependency...
Restorationists make use of the annual floods that stimulate the growth of riverine forests, flush out wetlands and rejuvenate them with fertile silt. Deprived of high-water surges, wetlands quickly die. In the 1960s, for example, flood-control canals transformed South Florida's wild Kissimmee River from a sinuous network of oxbows and tributaries into a stagnant ditch. The disastrous result: nearly 18,200 hectares (45,000 acres) of prime wetlands disappeared. Waterfowl and fish populations plummeted. Last year, in a startling about-face, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District proposed to unleash...
...means to describe is the following phenomenon: To force a body of people to have memories they do not actually possess. He believes the post-baby boom generation (better known as the twentysomething generation or Generation X) has become fed up with the mysticism of--and nostalgia for--the 1960s...