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...United States. The location is again important. These shootings aren't happening in schools with metal detectors at the door (always a hint that your child's safety may be in question), situated in the inner city and surrounded on a daily basis by violence and drugs. These are affluent suburban public high schools, the home of the same soccermoms who showed their voting power in Bill Clinton's election...

Author: By Bree Z. Tollinger, | Title: Flag-Burning Redux | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

Upon hitting the age of 66, most professors were secure enough to retire to their homes, many of which were located in affluent Cambridge neighborhoods, living comfortably off their Harvard pensions...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Aging Faculty Postpone Retiring | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Upon hitting the age of 66, most professors were secure enough to retire to their homes--many of which were located in affluent Cambridge neighborhoods--living comfortably off their Harvard pensions...

Author: By Jason M. Goins and Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Graying of theFaculty | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...opening scene of The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock (played by a young Dustin Hoffman) is awkwardly working an affluent Southern California crowd at a graduation party arranged for him by his parents when a family friend offers one of the century's most famous pieces of cinematic advice: "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemist LEO BAEKELAND | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...John Kenneth Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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