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...birth rate is the highest it has been in more than a decade. After dropping as low as 14.5 (babies per 1,000 population), the rate climbed to 16.2 in 1980 and is expected to hit 17.1 this year. Such a rise is more than just a blip on the demography charts. It has portentous overtones. Although three-quarters of all babies continue to be borne by women in the 18-to-30 age group, there has been an astonishing 15.2% rise in the birth rate of women who were once thought to be slightly beyond their child-bearing years...
Known to outsiders for their persistent door-to-door proselytizing, Jehovah's Witnesses exist within what Franz calls a "hermetically sealed" community; every doctrinal blip or scintilla of sin is closely monitored. Nowhere is this more true than at Bethel, the sect's Brooklyn headquarters. By Franz's account, reading or studying of the Bible is considered "evil" unless conducted in authorized discussions following Watch Tower doctrinal guides, lest staffers veer into error...
...proposals. Last year 145 new companies were started with venture capital, 53% more than in 1979. By year's end, according to Stanley Pratt, editor of Venture Capital Journal, these companies will have poured a record $1.1 billion into infant businesses. Says Pratt: "This is still a minor blip in the capital structure of this country, but it is a critical amount for the American economy...
...Sociologists insist that newspapers often manufacture "crime waves." Once an unusual holdup catches an editor's eye, every similar crime is. reported as one more chilling example of the same-even though at the end of a year the headlined crime wave didn't make a real blip in police statistics. The murders of black children in Atlanta captured the press's attention because some killings seemed the work of a demonic psycho. The killings were awful; the concern is real, but the news interest has been exploited. Every violent death of a black child in Atlanta...
...Ilyushin 62 jet carrying 130 people, including Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, approached New York City's Kennedy Airport on the afternoon of Jan. 18, something went dangerously awry in the control tower. The letters and numbers identifying a blip on the radar screen as the Soviet plane suddenly disappeared. An unidentified voice then ordered the Soviet pilot to descend from 8,000 ft. to 4,000 ft., into airspace that is normally reserved for small planes. For three minutes-and six miles-the jetliner flew at low altitude over heavily populated Long Island, until a tower supervisor discovered what...