Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this simple premise is difficult to execute. "To move kids from fatalism to industriousness," says Carrera, "the intervention needs to be complex and longstanding." After those initial months of intense scrutiny and understandable suspicion, Carrera managed to assemble 22 girls and boys, ranging in age from 13 to 16, and a smaller group of parents for courses on family life and sex education. "The kids are riddled with mythology about these things. There is a real need to inform," he says. Before long, the youngsters were not only learning but also receiving a range of support services from adults...
...more aware of China's changing realities than Deng Xiaoping, whose revolutionary credentials are far stronger than those of most of his academic critics. Diplomats who have seen him during the past two months believe that he remains in good form for a person of his age. But he is surely aware that his political power, especially among the young, is on the wane. He can afford to allow university students to let off steam occasionally in pursuit of democracy or in memory of a fallen hero. The test will come if, when the ceremonies for Hu are past...
...year has leveled off at around 1.6 million, up from 744,600 in 1973 -- about 30% of all pregnancies, excluding stillbirths and miscarriages. (Comparable figures are 14% for Canada, 13% for West Germany, 27% for Japan and 68% for the Soviet Union.) One-fifth of American women above the age of 15 have had one. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research organization, most are young and single -- 81% are unmarried at the time, and 62% are under 25. More than one-fourth ( are teenagers. More than two-thirds say they could not afford the child or felt otherwise...
Wilson makes the shy Alan Cranston seem positively flamboyant. Cranston's greatest vice is jogging too much for a man his age (74); the most colorful thing about him is his hair, which he dyed an orange shade of red five years ago to update his haggard look for a brief run for the presidency. For a while it looked as if Cranston might lose his seat in 1986, but that will take someone a lot duller than challenger Ed Zschau, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who believes in memory chips and the Pacific...
Welcome to the postindustrial age, when labor-saving gadgetry was supposed to make our lives easier. Not a chance. These are the days of the time famine, when parents talk about sleep the way hungry people talk about food. Why do we work so hard? What is the cost to ourselves and our children? And just what would we be willing to give up to live a little more peaceably? See LIVING...