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...were added up, it would be reckoned that some 40 million Europeans had lost their lives during the war; alongside them fell 160,045 Americans, 45,057 Canadians and thousands of others of non-European nationalities. Since then, in a near-miraculous turnabout, the nations of Western Europe have risen from the rubble and grown into the world's second-largest economic entity, ranking below only the U.S. In a remarkable fashion, that accomplishment owes much to the superpowers. From the West came the generosity and vision of the U.S., through the Marshall Plan; that grand recovery scheme, conceived under...
Most threatening of all, perhaps, is the imminent prospect of numerous retirements. The average age of American teachers has risen to an estimated 40 to 43, and in the next five years, 30% to 50% of the instructors are expected to bow out. The retirement trend has been accelerated in some part by recent efforts to upgrade qualifications. This spring, for example, Arkansas imposed a very unpopular competency test on all its teachers. And though results released last month showed that only 10% had flunked various sections of the exam, one union official said the test had a "devastating effect...
...fans would flock to see football in spring and summer, attempted to upset that arrangement. Led by New York Developer Donald Trump and other multimillionaires, the new league initially tossed around seven-figure salaries to lure players away from the N.F.L. As a result, the average N.F.L. salary has risen 58%, to $163,000, in the past two years. The N.F.L. Management Council warns that if paychecks keep rising at the present pace, the league could lose $87 million...
...paper's third birthday next month, that question elicits a mixed answer. USA Today, which appears Monday through Friday, enjoys a circulation of more than 1.3 million, making it the country's third-largest daily.[*] Advertising pages have risen from an average of 6.5 a day for the first six months of 1984 to twelve a day through the first half of 1985. Once ridiculed by journalists across the country as McPaper, the fast-food version of the news, USA Today has been grudgingly accepted in many newsrooms as a different, if not necessarily the best, way of delivering...
Twenty kilometers outside the city of Nagoya in central Japan, on ground that was the Aichi Youth Park, a glittering futurescape has risen at the site of the 2005 World Exposition. Visitors at the expo's Mitsui-Toshiba pavilion are taken on a multimedia journey through outer space that speculates on the feasibility of travel to distant reaches of the universe. At the Japan pavilion, saltwater red snapper and freshwater carp live side by side in the same pool-a marvel accomplished by infusing the tank with "oxygenated nanobubbles." Throughout the 173-hectare grounds, more than 25 robots...