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Nastiest Campus Trend Even with incidents of racism and anti-Semitism on the rise, date rape stood out as the greatest blight on academe. A study showed that 1 in 9 female college students had been raped; 80% of them knew their attacker...
Activists eager to mobilize children do not hesitate to use show biz, though some might call it propaganda. Turner Broadcasting is producing a half-hour syndicated cartoon show in which a superhero named Captain Planet and a youth corps called the Planeteers valiantly fight villainous polluters like Dr. & Blight. The back cover of one issue of P3 (for Earth, the third planet from the sun), a glitzy new environmental magazine for kids, shows a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shouting to readers, "Hey, dudes! Earth is a cowabunga planet! Let's keep it radical...
...decade ago, New York City subway cars were the primary target for industrious miscreants who, armed with marker pens and aerosol paint cans, scribbled and sprayed themselves into a major problem. City officials elsewhere in the country smugly assumed that gang graffiti were a blight limited largely to the Big Apple...
...slim volume, adapted from a series of lectures by Bok at Duke University in 1988, presents the strong argument that universities have failed to fulfill their full potential in "helping America surmount the obstacles that sap our economic strength and blight the lives of millions of our people...
...plot to force Detroit to default on its payments in order to foreclose on the city, have engineered a police strike. As a result, futuristic Detroit, already mired in urban blight, falls prey to a powerful new drug called Nuke, and the increase in crime...