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...COMMON WISDOM has it that the current crop of college students--us--is a self-indulgent breed. College seniors entering the real world are said to be liberal on social issues but conservative on economic matters. In other words, we are being told, Yuppies want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to make lots of money and then be left free to spend it on pleasures and vices of their own choosing...
...most popular toys of the new breed are likely to be Mattel's interactive Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. The line of 20 toys, which will go on sale starting this summer at prices mainly in the $30-to-$40 range, could generate as much as $200 million in sales for Mattel by mid-1988. The toy line will be linked with a half-hour Captain Power program to be broadcast on Saturday or Sunday nights beginning next fall. A mixture of live action and computer animation, Captain Power -- much like preteen action cartoons -- takes place...
...appear younger and rosier every year. But while detachment from the demanding work of the presidency may be physically healthy, it inevitably leads to a breakdown of the president's immunity to policy failure. The recent discovery of the "Contramania" scandal reveals the weaknesses such detachment can breed...
Programming is so important that a New Age breed of crystal therapists has sprung up to teach the uninitiated how to harness their rock power. Brett Bravo, 54, who was raised a strict Methodist in Texas, left organized religion in l975 to follow her "evolutionary spiritual path" to Solana Beach, Calif., where she conducts weekly seminars on how to program crystals. In a $45 one-day session, participants learn to cure ailments, erase negativity and recharge energy stores. "The way the stones heal," claims Bravo, "is by man's electrical field combining with the crystal's electromagnetic field. This affects...
Afghans are a special breed; unlike most people in the third world they never have been colonized. Three British attempts in the 19th and early 20th centuries to extend British India's border into Afghanistan were fended off by the fiercly independent Afghans...