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...modern Britain showed the best of itself in the week after Diana died: a feeling and a compassion and an openness to emotional expression that it had for too long kept bottled up. But perhaps--as stock markets stumble and wars drag on--these are sterner times than the mid-1990s, ones when the virtues of reason, reserve and order become apparent. You can't fuel a society on flowers alone...
...restive population is worrisome to Chinese government officials, because high inflation historically has led to political problems. Rising prices helped to foment massive civil unrest in 1989, and peasants to this day are resentful over harsh measures the central government used in the mid-1990s to rein in inflation, such as a crackdown on bank lending that brought growth to a halt in areas outside major cities. Inflation is not just a domestic concern, either. Because China supplies so much of the world's manufactured goods, higher costs on the mainland tend to show up on store shelves...
...Though the rate of abortion has generally been dropping since the mid-1990s, U.S. doctors still perform nearly 1.3 million abortions a year, and the percentage of those using mifepristone continues to increase. According to a recent report from the Guttmacher Institute, "at one large network of providers, the proportion of early abortions performed with mifepristone increased from 9% of eligible women...
Gortmaker published his first paper documenting the increases in childhood obesity about 20 years ago, and he wrote about the growing rate of asthma in children in the mid-1990s...
...Napa Valley evokes images of wine and elegant living, but during the mid-1990s gangs roamed local high schools and recruited younger members from places like Redwood Middle School. School officials barred suspected troublemakers from wearing certain colors and flashing signs associated with gangs, and violence dropped. Encouraged, the officials got together with parents to create a schoolwide dress code in 1998: no jeans, no pins, no patterns, no reds and no logos of professional sports teams. "Has it worked? Yes," declares Redwood principal Michael Pearson. "Now there is safety on campus. We're on to something here...