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Since the mid-1970s, campus Marxism has been on the decline, and the demise of the Soviet Union dealt an especially harsh blow. Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky, who comments on Marxist interpretations of English history, says: "The failure of the regimes that were Marxist-inspired has made it a much more difficult sell...
...their impulses. In the 1940s and '50s, the same constellation of symptoms was called minimal brain damage and, later, minimal brain dysfunction. In 1937 a Rhode Island pediatrician reported that giving stimulants called amphetamines to children with these symptoms had the unexpected effect of calming them down. By the mid-1970s, Ritalin had become the most prescribed drug for what was eventually termed, in 1987, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
...York State settled a $630 million lawsuit against Occidental Chemical Corp. for a bargain $98 million. Occidental's corporate predecessor, Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp., buried 22,000 tons of toxic waste near the Niagara Falls neighborhood from 1942 to 1953. Most of the town was evacuated in the mid-1970s when the contamination was widely reported. Despite the settlement today, Occidental's problems are far from over: many individual suits, as well as a federal action, brought against the company over Love Canal continue to percolate...
Chongryun has since become a substantial force. It has built 140 schools and a university for the Korean community, where 20,000 young people study the basics -- and the wisdom of Kim Il Sung. The association has established a powerful credit union and launched numerous publications. By the mid-1970s, Chongryun Koreans were starting to prosper; they now control most of Japan's pachinko parlors. Former Chongryun officials say North Korea made it clear that the well-being of loved ones back home depended on how often -- and how much -- their relatives in Japan were willing to contribute...
Steven Cook dropped his $10 million sexual-abuse lawsuit against Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, admitting that his hypnotically retrieved memories of sexual misconduct by Bernardin in the mid-1970s were "unreliable...