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...legal drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 in many states in the 1970s and then raised again nationally through the 1984 Minimum Purchase Age Act-two significant policy shifts that have enabled scientists to contrast effects on alcohol-related deaths. During the ensuing years, dozens of studies have been conducted by epidemiologists, economists, and public health and traffic safety experts. Almost all have found that the Age-21 law saves lives—an estimated 900 nationally each year...
...just written a biography of Balthus, and my editor in England said, ‘You know, there’s never been a biography of Le Corbusier.’ I had been to [Le Corbusier’s] Villa La Roche in France in the 1970s and loved it like few other buildings in my life, but I knew nothing about the man. And when I began to get to know Le Corbusier—in writing his biography—I found that I knew even less about him a few months after I started than when...
Great things happened in 1970s America. We celebrated our Bicentennial, birthed both “Jaws” and “Star Wars,” and impeached a president. By the end of the decade, we were also home to around 15,000 discothèques. Disco was a four billion dollar industry, yet my mother still has an avowed hatred the most popular musical genre of her early youth. “I was really more of a funk girl,” she would claim, turning the dial as a Gloria Gaynor tune came across...
...country.” Although Milk indeed begins to break down barriers, the movie foreshadows his untimely death. “Police hated us, and we hated them right back,” Milk says on the tape. The film begins with actual black-and-white footage from the 1970s of anti-gay rioters and police brutality being used to quash gay protests. Van Sant also splices the film’s action with witness interviews about the violence. “All we could hear was screaming, crushing, smashing. It was terrifying,” one man says. This...
...includes a new X factor: global warming. Some areas of the world will grow wetter as a result of climate change, but others will grow dryer, and so far the drying is winning. The area of the earth's land surface classified as very dry has doubled since the 1970s; by 2050, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes, that trend will worsen. "You do the math, and it gets a little scary," says Stuart Minchin, a water expert with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization. (See pictures of Australia, the driest inhabited continent...