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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Health and Development. The very term "sex education" is a trifle misleading, because almost all programs include sex courses only as part of a broader study of health and human development. To be sure, the courses and their teachers vary considerably both in quality and competence. Typically, the programs include study of family living, growth, hygiene and, in the higher grades, responsible social behavior, the hazards of indiscriminate relationships and premarital sex, as well as basic facts about the reproductive system and its purpose. In many schools, parents can request that their children not participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Sex in the Classroom | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...labyrinth had to be shut down for repairs. Now Gallery Director Carl Day, who built the maze with some of his students, understands why society is full of DON'T TOUCH signs. "People sure do break things," he said. "This experience has taught me what a bull the human being really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senses: Please Do Touch the Daisies | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

During the period that ended about 10,000 years ago with the discovery of agriculture, all of the seeds of civilization were sown. Out of the sharing and reciprocity demanded by the hunt, and out of the division of labor between male and female, arose the human family. The hunter's first symmetrical weapons were the antecedents of technology. By domesticating the dog for the chase, the hunter may have opened his eyes to the possibility of domesticating the prey. "Grinding and boiling may have been the necessary preconditions to the discovery of agriculture," write Anthropologists Sherwood L. Washburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: The Original Affluent Society | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...This was, when you come to think of it, the original affluent society," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Marshall D. Sahlins. He credits the hunter-gatherers with a Zen-like philosophy about scarcity and plenty. Implicitly, they accept as a fact of the human condition that "material ends are few and finite and technical means unchanging but on the whole adequate. Adopting the Zen strategy, a people can enjoy an unparalleled material plenty, though perhaps only a low standard of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: The Original Affluent Society | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Yardage from Football. In addition to being a defensive end for the Boston Patriots, Melvin Witt, 23, works as a salaried consultant to Boston's Office of Human Rights and heads a small advertising and public relations firm. Erich Barnes, a Cleveland Browns defensive back, readily admits that his Barnes Enterprises, Inc., a public relations firm, has gained considerable yardage from his football background. "You can get in the door if they've heard of you," Barnes says, "and that is half the battle." Once inside, Barnes tells white businessmen that "if they want the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Capitalism: Into the Big Leagues | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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