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Representative Robert Dornan of California referred to the O.J. Simpson trial as an example of the "advanced and accelerating moral decay" in America...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Students View Republican Debate | 10/13/1995 | See Source »

Republican Presidential Candidates emphasized moral decay in America, as approximately 30 people watched at the Institute of Politics (IOP) via a live satellite feed from New Hampshire Wednesday night...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Students View Republican Debate | 10/13/1995 | See Source »

Audience members were also concerned with the issue of moral decay...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Students View Republican Debate | 10/13/1995 | See Source »

...accompanied by a relative neglect of any higher values, is now a part of American culture. In looking at the state of contemporary America, many commentators rightly bemoan our society's crass materialism, expressing shock at this sorry state of affairs. We should all be disturbed by the moral decay of our nation...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: A Material World | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

...defy common sense. Lakes wander up to 10 ft. a year as their waters accumulate summer heat and melt the edges of their permafrost boundaries. Summer melting of the upper layers of the permafrost also allows leaves frozen since the Pleistocene era to return to their slow-motion decay. For years scientists were puzzled by the age of methane gases released from arctic lakes, which radiocarbon dating revealed to be more than 10,000 years old. Mammoths that strode the earth in millenniums past are still discovered almost perfectly preserved in the permafrost meat locker. Many believe the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIBERIA: THE TORTURED LAND | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

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