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...trouble is, even if fertility rates in the Third World dropped immediately from around 4 births per woman to the "replacement level" of 2 (a baby to replace each parent), the population would still climb to more than 8 billion sometime in the middle of the next century. That is because the vast numbers of females born on the steepest part of the S curve in the '50s and '60s have generated "demographic momentum," a boom in childbearing that will last for some time to come...
...Americans could intercept but not understand a message Yamamoto sent his fleet on Dec. 2: "Climb Mount Niitaka." That meant "Proceed with the attack...
...confrontation comes at a time when these institutions are enjoying renewed popularity. The proportion of blacks going to college across the U.S. has declined, but public black colleges saw their enrollment climb 13.2% from 1986 to 1989. The institutions also award nearly one-third of all undergraduate degrees granted to the 1.1 million blacks who pursue postsecondary study...
...areas for differing age groups. Three-year-olds and younger can learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk or on a webbed "bean field," a bouncy surface with punching bags that hang above it within a child's grasp. A nearby concession offers...
...livelier than that. It is a seething agglomeration of jazz halls, Zydeco joints, R.-and-B. clubs, great restaurants, all-night bars -- and, of course, Mardi Gras. Where else would a city's business and social leaders don sequined costumes, ostrich plumes, masks and fake beards, and climb atop 20-ft.-high floats and throw trinkets to the masses...