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...technology is only one element in solving health problems woven deeply in the structure of society [in many poor nations,]" said Michael R. Reich, lecturer in International Health. "The general decline in mortality rates in the West have resulted more from public health methods, such as improved sanitation, rather than medical technology...
...activities proved controversial among his countrymen. His plea for French unity in the face of an implacable enemy outraged warring factions. He dared suggest that the Vichy regime, which he "hated," had nonetheless saved France from "utter extermination" at the hands of the Third Reich. He feared the recriminations that might follow once the war was over and refused to stir passions against those who had stayed home and labored under the Germans: "A Frenchman abroad should be his country's advocate rather than a witness for the prosecution." He had the temerity to criticize the Gaullists: "Because this group...
...great achievement of the Baby Boomers. All sorts of kooky notions on the protest generation's agenda, from communal living to extolling "mind-expanding" drug use, have mercifully become memories. But women's liberation, minus its early stridency, has become the status quo. "We were the pioneers," says Reich, "to take seriously the notion that women are equal. That's the social change that's lasted." In TIME's poll of 30- to 40-year-olds, the legacy of the late '60s and '70s that earns the highest approval rating (82%) is simply "changes in the role of women...
...sole breadwinner entitled them to dinner on the table and uninterrupted sleep at night. "We can't be pioneers without looking wistfully over our shoulders at jobs that seemed easier, when career paths were clear, when women were subservient, when men could commandeer the heights of established power," says Reich with a wry grin. "There is some real tension in our generation over this phenomenon...
...Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., came Wernher von Braun, 45, the exuberant Prussian who had fathered the German V-2 rockets. He had been among those who rushed into American hands when the Third Reich collapsed. Von Braun souped up his Redstone missile, put a tiny satellite dubbed Explorer on top and sent it into orbit. There was no turning back...