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...Tommy Dorsey now outnumber those who hip-hop to Cyndi Lauper; for the first time in history, there are more Americans over 65 than there are teenagers. Notes Karl Zinsmeister, an economic demographer at the American Enterprise Institute: "By the late 1980s, one-half of our households will be headed by baby boomers. One-fourth of our population will be elderly. These two groups will define our society for a very long time...
...reality, American blacks were immigrants, internal immigrants. Sowell notes in his book Ethnic America that from 1940 to 1970 4 million blacks -- nearly one-fourth of all the 19th century European immigrants to the U.S. combined -- migrated from the rural South, the poorest area of the country, to the urban North. Many of today's urban blacks are only the second generation in the city, and their parents arrived at a time when the smokestack economy was spluttering...
...contend, really cause Pol Pot's unthinkable holocaust? A Khmer Rouge leader and theoretician named Khieu Samphan actually formulated the ideological foundation for the genocide long before the Americans started bombing. Pol Pot, once in power, set in motion the "Year Zero" program that led to the extermination of one-fourth of the population, some 2 million people, his own countrymen. Such deeds originate not in the American bombing but in a mystery of human behavior that is beyond imagination...
...most voluminous censure will fill at least two future issues of the New York University Law Review. The study, by N.Y.U. Law Professors Samuel Estreicher and John Sexton, applies a microscope to the cases considered by the court in its 1982-83 term. Its most striking conclusion: nearly one-fourth of the cases decided (39 out of 165) were not worth the Justices' time. The high court should deal only with the most important and vexing issues, the scholars say, rather than merely correct the errors of lower courts...
Anderson is trying to sell some of his older equipment, including seven tractors, three combines, several planters and cultivators. The equipment, which is parked outside the office of the Prairie Rice Co. in Chesterville, cost $1.4 million. "If we got one-fourth of that," Anderson says, "we'd be happy." His brother Arthur, 53, who farms 1,000 acres near by, is bitter about those who buy at forced sales. "At auctions, farmers pounce on a used tractor like vultures," he complains. "They're just feeding on someone else's misfortune...