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...survey, which was taken last year, also reported that the proportion of women between 25 and 29 who have never married climbed from 10.5% in 1960 to 18%. Since 1970 the number of families headed by a woman rose 43%, from 5.6 million to 8 million. Divorce is now so common, the report added, that nearly half of all children born today can expect to spend a meaningful portion of their lives before age 18 in single-parent families. The report did not speculate on what psychological effects that may have on the young...
...delivery it can be transmitted to the infant; it is also linked to cervical cancer. For years, doctors have searched for a cure. Now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania may have achieved that goal. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Herbert Blough and Robert Giuntoli report testing a cream containing the sugar 2-deoxy-D-glucose on 36 women with genital herpes infections. Within four days, it cleared up symptoms in 90% of the women with first infections. For women with recurring infections, improvement was almost as dramatic. A next step: to see if this magic...
...Three Mile Island nuclear plant lay with control-room personnel: they were not able to cope with a crisis. Just how should reactor operators learn their jobs? To find out, TIME Correspondent Peter Staler visited a nuclear training school near Chicago, where emergencies are programmed into the curriculum. His report...
...Tuesday Commander Mike Griffin landed his 'Blue Blasters' A-4D jet on the flight deck and came up to the bridge to report to Captain Searcy. Griffin had just overflown the beach area and helplessly watched the Brigade being driven back to the sea. Searcy was shocked by the pilot's appearance. Griffin's face was blue. Tears were running down it without restraint. He was so angry and upset that it took a couple of minutes before he could utter a word. 'I hate to see a grown man cry, but I didn...
DIED. Carleton Beals, 85, itinerant journalist and authority on Latin America; in Middletown, Conn. Arriving in Mexico City by wild burro in 1917, Beals went on to witness and report four Mexican rebellions, Mussolini's rise to power in Italy, and General Augusto Sandino's guerrilla uprising against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the late...