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Just as Rousseau had provided the ideological basis for adolescence, the industrial revolution provided the practical one: the factories needed the young as workers. Compulsory education was sold to the House of Commons largely as a device to keep the growing number of unemployed agricultural workers under 15 from "idling...
Alms & the Man. This kid could Armed with $600 in traveler's checks and a beguiling blend of corn and con ("I'm a beggar seeking alms of knowledge, and people have to help me"), he flew to Europe, took a two-month motor-scooter tour of Britain...
How do you cross a continent with a $2,300,000 Rembrandt without hiring a rent-a-tank? Play Santa Claus. California Industrialist Norton Simon, 58, had Rembrandt's Titus brought to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Museum Registrar Frieda Kay Fall, who gift-wrapped it...
Though the practice of Christmas gift giving has reached its dizzy apex in the U.S., Europe is not far behind. Last week executives cleared their offices and sat back expectantly for the deluge of gifts that this year will break every record in Europe. As in the U.S., better times...
National rivalries, language barriers, monetary exchange difficulties and widely varying, virtually unregulated rates have helped to put European truckers years behind their U.S. counterparts. DC plans to win the business of U.S. firms on the Continent, and of European concerns as well, by providing rapid, door-to-door service within...