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...connubial context, and mainly to girls 17 and over. Twenty and 30 years ago, if an unwed teenager should, heaven forbid, become pregnant, chances are her parents would see that she was swiftly married off in a shotgun wedding. Or, if marriage was impractical, the girl would discreetly disappear during her confinement, the child would be given up for adoption, and the matter would never be discussed again in polite company. Abortion, of course, was not a real option for most until 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled it could not be outlawed...
...minimum, the spirit of Deng's course is very different from that of classic Marxism. While Marx can be read as allowing the market to coexist with socialism for a while, he regarded the market as an exploitative device that would eventually disappear. It seems doubtful that he would have approved any attempt to revive it after it had disappeared. Most of all, Deng's version of Marxism lacks the crusading zeal of the classic variety. Marx preached his revolution as history's final showdown between the forces of light and those of darkness. It strains the imagination to conjecture...
...born librarian, Lionel Mapleson, immortalized dozens of performances from his perch in the prompter's box and, later, from a catwalk 40 ft. above the stage. But then he abandoned the project, and the fragile, two-minute wax cylinders were left to decay and, in some cases, break and disappear. As early as 1938, collectors began preserving the priceless vocal treasures. Now a team of two critics and a recording engineer, under the auspices of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Performing Arts Research Center and the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, has heroically rescued...
...after the Big Bang, four dimensions were liberated onto the large scale of the universe, while the remaining six remained rolled up into a little ball at every point in space-time. "What's pretty sure," says Schwarz, "is that today we have to have six of the dimensions disappear. How things got to be this way is a little less clear...
Still, no one expects that either junk bonds or hostile takeovers will disappear in the wake of the Federal Reserve's new regulation. Wily Wall Streeters will undoubtedly soon discover new ways to finance their deals. Even Fed Chairman Paul Volcker predicts that corporate raiders will uncover "innumerable devices" to circumvent the new policy. When that happens, the central bank could decide to take further action...