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Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford's Hoover Institution thinks the "destabilization of belief systems" wrought by the Viet Nam War helped propel the sexual revolution along. The end of the war and the onset of a recession, he says, brought "a movement back to more stability" and a turn away from far-out sex in the mid-'70s. British Journalist Henry Fairlie, an astute observer of the American scene, thinks the tinkering with personal life-styles that characterized the '60s and early '70s inevitably bred distaste for further social change. "Endless questioning of all aspects of life from food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Is Over | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

...Millennium has positioned itself to be a leader in the protein homeostasis field,” Harper said in a phone interview. “They have unique resources that will really help us move forward in an in-depth level and trade off ideas and resources to propel the field forward...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS, Pharma Co. Join Forces | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

That's a truth that non-Muslim Europeans might do well to remember; after all, in Europe's Dark Ages, it was great European Muslim universities like the one in Córdoba that kept the lamp of learning alight. Islam's stress on education helped propel London barrister Azeem Suterwalla through Oxford and Harvard. "My religion gives me drive and purpose," he says, and it has also helped shape his political and professional views, giving him "a feeling of obligation" to help the Muslim umma. It was a concern about the state of Muslims in Gaza and Kashmir that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Through | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...country, we can bring about changes on universal health care, education, immigration reform. The major challenges that we face - he has been on the front lines, he knows what it takes. I think he gets a sense that the spirit we saw in this auditorium today is what can propel us past the divisions and the partisanship and the technical roadblocks that stand in the way of us achieving a better country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Kennedys Went for Obama | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

Wind-powered A commercial cargo ship that set sail Jan. 22 from Germany to Venezuela became the first to use computer-controlled kite technology. A 1,722-sq.-ft. (160 sq m) kite helps propel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

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