Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midwest. In the view of film executives, America's heartland is "virgin territory" on the screen, unknown even to many Americans-not to mention foreign movie buffs. It also offers the stark authenticity that many current movies demand: steel mills, gritty factory towns, ghettos black and ethnic, as well as the lush estates of the better-heeled...
...devotion to victims of leprosy in Hawaii, Father Damien followed a calling that led to his death from the disease. Now the leprosarium that he made famous, Kalaupapa, is dying of attrition-and for the most welcome reasons: new cases of the disease have become rare among ethnic Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, and leprosy can be treated so successfully today that newly identified patients soon become noncontagious. The savage isolationism of the past has been replaced by an enlightened open-door policy. To observe the striking changes, TIME Contributor Gilbert Cant visited the leprosarium where Damien labored. His account...
Ironically, Damien's fame and the cause of his death have stood in the way of public awareness that for most ethnic groups, leprosy is one of the least contagious of all diseases. Koch estimates that 90%, perhaps even as many as 99% of Caucasians could not catch leprosy if they tried-not even by living in marital contact with a patient for many years...
...ages of six and twelve against that of a control group of nonredheaded kids. Though the evidence was far from conclusive, Bar believes the study points to a genetic connection between red hair and hyperactive behavior. "It is possible," he says, "that the assumed national characteristics of certain ethnic groups, like the adventurousness of the Vikings and the temperament of the Irish, are connected to the high frequency of redheads among them...
...cash and the ability to cope with some initial losses." He seems to be right; half a dozen owners may have turned a profit for the first time this past season, pushed into the black by the sport's growing audience. No longer confined solely to ethnic groups nostalgic for the old country, U.S. soccer crowds now include large numbers of women (40% of fans are female) and suburban, upper-middle-class executives and professionals...