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...American first have sexual intercourse?" (at age 16 or 17); "Out of 10 American women, how many would you estimate have ever masturbated?" (six to eight); "What percentage of women engage in anal sex?" (30% to 40%); "What do you think is the average length of a man's erect penis?" (five to seven inches). Still, as Kinsey shows, the level of actual knowledge suggests that the great sexual revolution of the late '60s was vastly over-rated. Of women 30 to 44, only 55% got a passing grade on the test (10 correct answers); of men in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: No Sex, Please, We're Ignorant | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...through on the rest of his program will depend heavily on the returns from those elections, when as many as 70% of the current legislators may be replaced. The question is whether the infusion of fresh blood will help Collor in his drive toward the First World -- or will erect new Third World roadblocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil The Biggest Shake-Up | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...Americans to run to the barricades, they have to care enough to erect them. So far, for their dose of populism, Americans are content to let their patrician President eat pork rinds, lay out a horseshoe pitch at the White House and evoke a "kinder, gentler" nation like a smug, self-fulfilling national mantra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is A Populist Revolt at Hand? HE POLITICS OF RICH AND POOR | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...Student leaders announce the indefinite continuation of the protest, saying the government refused to negotiate in good faith. Students erect the "Goddess of Democracy" statue in Tiananmen Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chronology of the Democracy Movement | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...Cambridge city officials wanted to erect a structure on what Boothe described as "a beleaguered area" of "parking lots and vacant buildings...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: The City As a Sketchpad | 4/12/1990 | See Source »

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