Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rafsanjani's power base in the Majlis is made up of a small clique of technocrats and the bazaari merchant class, of which he is a member. The bazaaris were the key to the overthrow of the Shah, and now they want the President to live up to his promises...
Now, however, the children of the sexual revolution are beginning to grapple with how to teach their own children about sex. Faced with evidence that their kids are suffering while they bicker, parents and educators are seeking some common ground about what works and what doesn't. It is becoming...
"There's something wrong," sex educator Sol Gordon once said, "with a country that says, 'Sex is dirty, save it for someone you love.' " But families at least agreed on a social standard that preached, if not practiced, the virtues of restraint and of linking sex to emotional commitment and...
As for those who sat out the sexual revolution, they may be too embarrassed or intimidated to talk to teens -- or afraid of giving the wrong information. Phyllis Shea, director of teen programs for the Worcester, Massachusetts, affiliate of Girls Inc. (formerly Girls Clubs of America), recently ran a sex...
For all the aggressive girl talk, some experts are worried that what the sexual revolution has really done for teenage girls is push them into doing things they may not really want to do. "The irony is that the sexual revolution pressured girls into accepting sex on boys' terms," argues...