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Women's colleges in general have been squeezed by two powerful trends. One is the baby bust of the late 1960s and '70s, which has meant a shrinking pool of college-age youngsters. Single-sex schools get a crack at only half that decreasing market. The other is the declining popularity of women-only education. Currently, just 3% to 11% of high school women say they would consider a women's college. Taken together, these changes have made it difficult for many all-female colleges to attract enough students to keep themselves afloat...
...media companies mend their ways without government interference? There is certainly a precedent for it. In the 1960s and '70s, much entertainment, from Beatles music to the movies Easy Rider and M*A*S*H, glamourized drug use. But at some point, the world's artists, producers and media executives decided that promoting drugs was not a good thing. Nowadays the message that children receive from entertainment is strong and unambiguous: drugs are dangerous, and taking them is foolish. I hope that the future messages my two boys receive about sex and violence make just as much sense...
...rising popularity of these dense, honest loaves has its roots in the health movement of the 1960s, when small bakers began packaging grainy loaves as an alternative to artificially enriched white bread. Back then, however, the selections tended to be dry, crumbly, even sweet, since honey was a popular additive. Today the taste and texture have vastly improved, and specialty breads remain a valuable source of complex carbohydrates and fiber, free of preservatives and chemical additives. "People have discovered that from real bread you get more nutrients for the fewest calories, for the fewest dollars," says Paul Stitt, president...
Some people like to take comfort in the fact that the national debt, although swelling, is a smaller share of gross national product than it was during the years after World War II. That's true. But interest on the debt is far larger. As late as the early 1960s, when the national debt was still more than half of GNP, though heading downward, interest payments were barely 1% of ! GNP. Today the publicly held debt of $2.3 trillion is "only" 43% of GNP (up from 27% in 1981), but interest...
...does the U.S. Government fit into this mixed picture of revival and suffering? Unfortunately, in Cambodia now as in the past, the U.S. is part of the problem, not part of the solution. During the 1960s, American diplomats used to belittle the attempts by Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk to keep his country out of the Vietnam War. They also criticized Sihanouk's enforced willingness to look the other way while North Vietnamese troops used his border areas as sanctuaries and staging grounds for attacks into South Vietnam. In 1969 the Nixon Administration began the secret U.S. bombing...