Word: births
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...21st CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "From Cradle to Classroom," Part 2, examines two projects that work intensively with economically and culturally deprived children almost from birth until they enter school: Syracuse University's day-care center for babies of working mothers, and the University of Illinois' nursery school, where there is a teacher for every five children...
...enjoyed the article about Dr. Perell's tipsy technique for retarding early birth contractions [Feb. 9]. I have used the same delightful method through three pregnancies and produced three lovely normal children. In fact, I get stoned the minute the rabbit test comes back positive...
...issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth rate have shifted the economic and numerical balance. But most Flem ish still feel slighted in Belgian business and political and social circles, where they believe that the preferred French language gives Walloons an advantage. The Flemish are driving hard for what they consider equality, and are in no mood...
...1960s, several young artists -most notably Andy Warhol and California's Bruce Conner - have abandoned the paint tube for the film can, leading their fans to hail the underground cinema as the birth of "a new art form." Rebirth would be more like it. The first artists to experiment with film were the Dadaists and surrealists in the 1920s, including Duchamp and Man Ray. The most inventive of the lot was a film maker who, as an artist, is all but unknown...
This widening gap doesn't just mean the developing nations are getting rich more slowly than the industrial nations. For many Asian countries the next 30 years will actually bring a lower per capita income and standard of living as birth rates outstrip economic growth...