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...campaign was fine-tuned during a year of field study that confirmed Coke's impression that the current crop of teens suffer, along with their twentysomething elders, from an acute sense of diminished expectations. Like many other researchers, Coke saw that teens were concerned about violence, aids and getting jobs, all of which heightened their typical adolescent anxieties. "Economic prosperity is less available than it was for their parents. Even traditional rites of passage, such as sex, are fraught with life-or-death consequences," says Lanahan...
...about the argument that while students vacate Cambridge after four years, locals must bear the evils of fast food forever? The truth is that students will be here for years to come as well. Each outgoing crop makes room for a new crowd with a new appetite. Moreover, we can't dismiss student demands so easily. Without students, the Square would...
...player who has a deeply vested interest in interactive services is Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, the largest personal-computer software company. Not surprisingly, Gates has dismissed the current crop of TV trials as "crummy" and "embarrassing." Says he: "There's not a single pilot that's been done that justifies the huge financial stake I and others have just intuitively decided to invest in this." Gates remains convinced that interactive TV is inevitable, however. He just wants it to appear on devices running his company's operating system, and he has 500 employees working on making that happen...
Although the A.W.B., the most militant of the groups, claims 65,000 members, analysts say there are no more than 15,000, fewer than 5,000 of whom are violent activists. Most members are working-class or poor whites struggling as crop farmers and factory workers to make ends meet -- the Afrikaners who feel most threatened by black equality in the workplace...
...Yale squad won the Ivy League championship last year and has a good crop of young talent...