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...beef up trade ties as well as improve cooperation in the fight against Islamist extremism - clear signs, experts say, that Moscow is bolstering its role in the "Af-Pak" theater, a region Russia had largely retreated from after the scarring decade-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s...
...1980s, psychologists like Howard Gardner proposed theories that later rationalized new methodologies in pedagogy, prioritizing the creativity of the American student over his or her ability to perform under pressure. With the theory of “multiple intelligences” firmly in place, parents willingly took to shuttling kids off to soccer games, painting lessons, summer camps, and dance recitals. In high school and college, these interests turned into extracurriculars, which de-emphasized textbook learning but worked to contribute to the student’s growth as an individual. It is perhaps a luxury of America?...
...radicalism was short-lived. Fat Underground never totaled more than a handful of people and was more of a nuisance than an actual threat - members gave speeches and harassed weight-loss groups but never resorted to actual violence. By the early 1980s, Fat Underground fizzled out, while NAAFA - by then renamed the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance - remained the most vocal advocate for the rights of obese Americans...
...1970s, burnished by a romanticized image of its members as revolutionaries fighting Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime, ETA assassinated Luis Carrero Blanco, the Prime Minister whom Franco had picked to succeed him. By the end of the decade, it had killed hundreds more people. And in the 1980s, the clandestine organization carried out a series of highly visible attacks: a car bomb parked at a Barcelona department store in 1987 left 21 dead; another, in 1986, exploded as a convoy of civil guards passed, killing...
...term apprentice as a reference to those interested in learning about careers in government. Meanwhile, co-op programs, in which students would work at a company for an extended period during college, emerged. As the average college tuition increased (reaching about $9,000 for private colleges in the 1980s), co-ops allowed students to earn money to afford higher education in addition to getting real-world experience. From 1970 to 1983, the number of colleges and universities offering the programs increased from 200 to 1,000. Northeastern University launched the first one in the U.S. in 1909, although the practice...