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While some disgruntled Radcliffe students expressed their indignation, Gabriella P. Schlesinger ’58 remembers that resistance in the next decade was generally muted—common for what is known as the “Silent Generation...
...were beaten. The city has been in a grip of a wave of shootings in recent years. There were 392 homicides in 2007 and 406 the year before in a city of less than a million and a half residents. In some parts of the city, gunfire is a common sound and it's hardly unheard-of for innocent bystanders to be injured or killed. Nutter, who is black, was elected mayor last year in part on his promise to reduce the killings in a city weary of constant gunplay. "The rise in homicides makes it really clear that...
...subscribers who pay to participate. People spend on average about 20 hours a week in alternate worlds like these, and at VHIL, whose high-tech virtual world is entered by way of a $24,000 helmet, Bailenson and his Ph.D. students are trying to figure out how these increasingly common virtual experiences bleed into reality. "I've been doing this for years and people have been laughing at me," says Bailenson. "All of a sudden, I have people calling and asking about what...
...Pittsburgh, once the Steel City, has moved on, but not Senator Clinton. I felt I had heard all of this stuff before. Not just on CNN last week. Such derogatory comments about China's trade practices are now common in America's political and media discourse. No, I had heard these statements a long, long time ago. When I was a college student, in the late 1980s...
...Common Currency is a column on global economics by Michael Schuman that appears weekly on TIME.com...