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...were ever possible to doubt that the cost of a college education posed a prohibitive class barrier, those doubts should be dispelled now. In fact, as a percentage of the median family's household earnings, a Harvard education costs more now than it did 20 years ago, 25 years ago, even 50 years ago! So much for progress...
Here's where it gets interesting, Diane. Nielsen used to depend on diaries and household meters to measure national viewership. But in September 1987 the company switched to people meters. These devices, currently in 4,000 homes, require every member of the household to push a button whenever he or she starts watching TV. Ad executives love people meters because they can tabulate exactly who is watching TV at any given time. But the networks don't trust the gadgets, mainly because they show fewer people are watching network TV than the old system...
...father's departure unhinges the transient household. Joe realizes that he has lately been included in a drama that his parents have been staging for years. "We haven't been very intimate lately," his mother confides about her relationship with his father. "You might as well hear that." Why should he hear that? To prepare him for the appearance of Warren Miller, a local rich man, in the Brinson home one afternoon when Joe gets back from school...
...late '40s and the '50s. Do we really want cold war-type anxieties and constitutional indelicacies to be applied in nonmilitary realms -- in the environmental area, for instance, where restraints might be far more intrusive than military protectiveness, perhaps involving close public scrutiny of industrial practices, even household behavior? Instead it may be time to relax a bit and give room to other, more positive and less anxious goals: health, liberty, equity, cultural enrichment, environmental enhancement -- for their own sake rather than security...
...million in foreign exchange by serving as a landfill for Western Europe, which has major pollution problems of its own. Every day hundreds of garbage-laden trucks cross the border from West Germany and West Berlin to dump their loads. Last year they delivered 5.5 million tons of household and construction rubbish -- plus an additional 65,000 tons of garbage that contained dangerous substances. Smaller amounts of trash came from the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland...