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...Political Scientist Daniel Moynihan described them, "Suddenly a new social class was created in the U.S., so large in its number that it was fundamentally isolated from the rest of society ... At every level there emerged a sense that 'we are alone and separate from them.' " This generation is now largely in its twenties. As its members continue to marry, by 1980 the number of U.S. households will rise to at least 77 million (from 63 million in year 1970). Unlike members of the cohort before them, who had fewer contemporaries with whom to compete, the baby-boom...
...possible link between the pattern of crimes and the rising standard of living in the Soviet Union has not been overlooked. Writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Young Communist), Political Scientist Vladimir Kudryavtsev noted that "one occasionally hears that once a society has achieved affluence, crimes for gain disappear. However, as Aristotle observed, greed can also be engendered by prosperity. When examining the motives of crime for gain, we cannot automatically attribute them exclusively to relics of the past. Today, a number of 'accretions of the present,' so to speak, are to be observed...
Died. Jacob Bronowski, 66, compleat scientist-humanist; of a heart attack; in East Hampton, N.Y. A Polish-born, Cambridge-trained mathematician who left a long career in teaching and government service in Britain in 1964 to join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake...
...Environmental Protection Agency, however, is more concerned about a contaminant that often appears as an impurity in manufactured 2,4,5-T -dioxin, which one EPA scientist has called "by far the most toxic product known to mankind." Small animals have been killed and birth defects caused in rats by dioxin concentrations of less than one part per billion-lethal levels so minute that researchers have trouble measuring them. Because of this experimental difficulty, the EPA says it still lacks sufficient evidence to press for a ban on 2,4,5-T. But, using a newly developed method of analysis...
Political scientist, author of Presidential Power, associate dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government...