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It has never been easy to be a teenager, but in the past three decades adolescence seems to have become even more difficult and often fraught with real danger. Since 1950 the suicide rate has tripled among youths from 15 to 24, spurred by changing social mores, increased drug and...
Iron and Silk is not so much a treatise on modern Chinese mores as a series of telling vignettes. When a clerical worker at the college committed suicide, her funeral could not be held or her family consoled until, four days later, local Communist Party officials announced that "her problems...
Despite the fanfare, most educators think it will take more than education to change sexual mores. "We're a generation away from accepting condoms," says Mary Sherman, a public-health educator at Berkeley. Dr. Richard Keeling, chairman of the American College Health Association's task force on AIDS, admits that...
Coping with the specter of AIDS is particularly difficult for the heirs of the American sexual revolution, probably smaller in numbers than advertised but nonetheless vehement in the assertion of a freer, more open set of mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there...
The Panic of '89 pits the haves against the have- mores. -- The Fatal Shore brilliantly traces the tragedy of Australia' s beginnings.