Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When they were 18 years old, their rites of passage into adulthood--civil rights protest, the war in Vietnam, the counterculture--filled the nation's front pages. When they finally married and began families--often much later than their own parents--their family issues became the stuff of sitcoms. Throughout their now advancing lives, the baby boomers have always stood at the demographic center of American life. Their concerns have been the dominant concerns, their passions the dominant passions. So it stands to reason that as the baby-boom generation begins its massive sweep into...
...being raised anew, as men--all but one of them presumably innocent--weigh the ease of submitting to a DNA test against their right to refuse and the suspicion that would be raised if they did. It's a problem that is becoming more and more familiar--and, for civil libertarians, cause for more and more alarm. "These are technologies in which powerful organs in society control members with less power," frets Philip Bereano, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union's board of directors. "They are inherently violative of civil rights...
...incredible for some people's taste, however. Once a database like this is assembled, civil rights advocates argue, it is unlikely to be disassembled, and it is only a matter of time before data grow to include not just wrongdoers but also law-abiding citizens. Proponents of DNA testing dismiss this as libertarian alarmism, but experience suggests otherwise...
DIED. A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM JR., 70, esteemed federal judge and scholar; of complications from several strokes; in Boston. Higginbotham, a civil rights advocate who called himself a "survivor of segregation," was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--in 1995 when he retired from the bench (see Eulogy, below...
...scored major hits, including best-selling albums by rappers JAY-Z, DMX and METHOD MAN. Def Jam expects revenues to hit $190 million for 1998. Simmons' bride is 23-year-old model KIMORA LEE, host of his TV show, One World Music Beat. The two already had a modest civil ceremony in New York City. But even millionaires get wedding blues. Simmons missed a connecting flight and was briefly stranded in Puerto Rico. The wedding is expected to be quite an affair: MARTHA STEWART RSVPed; model TYRA BANKS is a bridesmaid; and Simmons' brother JOSEPH (a.k.a...