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...Backward Clocks. Another debate rages over the FBI's "crime clocks." In tallying crimes against the person, the 1964 crime clock registered one murder every hour, one robbery every five minutes, one aggravated assault every three minutes. By ignoring the number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says Professor Robison, the crime clock presents a distorted picture: "Since the base figures cover an entire year, the number of offenses should be divided by 365 days to represent the chances that any one person would risk. Utilizing this method, rough calculations for murder in 1964 suggest that...
Homosexuality is something of a tradition in backward Yemen, where Bedouin herdsmen roam the rocky hills for months on end with only each other and their animals for company. Male brothels flourish in San'a, the capital, and the late Imam Ahmad, who ruled the country for 14 years before his death in 1962, established an international reputation for overzealous camaraderie...
With victory in their grasp, the Northerners' first idea was to secede and form their own independent state. After a flurry of long-distance telephone conferences, however, and heavy diplomatic pressure from the West, they were persuaded that the backward, semiarid North would be hard put to go it alone without the natural resources of the South and the skills of the Southerners. Agreeing to one more try at nationhood, they named a 31-year-old lieutenant colonel, Yakubu Gowon, as Nigeria's new supreme commander...
Vital as research is, victory over hunger also demands that backward countries scale new heights of social, political and economic organization. As the U.S. example shows, it takes vast amounts of capital-$30,500 per U.S. farm worker v. $19,600 for an industrial worker. Some experts figure that developing countries must invest $80 billion before 1980 just to feed their growing populations at today's unhappy level. Beyond that, there is a need for chains of agricultural-research centers and schools abroad, partly staffed by an army of young U.S. technicians-one Congressman would call them the "bread...
...months old, start on the alphabet in five-minute lessons at 30 months, gradually work up to daily 90-minute lessons. The book details a sequence of teaching steps with specific instructions on how to get across such progressively more complex concepts as geometric shapes (by age three), counting backward (age four), fractions and inferences from statements (age five...