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...benefits of the plan are clear: Fitness: The military will rejuvenate the middle-aged boomers, functioning as an incomparable diet-and-exercise program. Slim down, shape up. Sexual behavior: If all the service people - women as well as men - are in their 50s, the incidence of sexual harassment will decline almost to zero. So will the incidence of pregnancies. Let older, more mature hormones exert their civilizing influence. (The commanding officer may want to have a word with Private Clinton on this matter). Boomer psyche: An all-middle-aged army would repair at last the moral split in the generation...
...saddened when our heroes leave - either fading into memory or untimely ripped from our admiring attention - because they have challenged our imaginations, entertained us with their skill and charmed us with their transcendent appeal. In essence, they have helped shape an enduring part of us with their performances and touched our lives with the effusive warmth of theirs...
...tackle the remaining issues. According to notes obtained by TIME, they decided on what can only be called a rather unbalanced division of labor. Archer's general counsel, Susan Steeg, wrote, "Industry will draft rules." Pointing to her notes, Steeg claims she merely meant that the industry would shape the language, not the substance of the rules...
When you apply the question to entire societies, you enter into a conundrum that may be approached as a sort of cultural-genome project. What is our social and economic DNA? A fascinating new book, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (Basic Books; $35), proclaims the secret in its title and, in a series of 22 essays by scholars, journalists and global-business experts, studies the record of societies' successes and failures in the light of their cultural inheritances and internalized mental models...
...conviction 11. Campus bigwig 19. Business-card abbr. 20. Schooner filler 22. "Cease!" at sea 23. Rocky -- 24. Adjective for the Beatles 25. Suffix with expert 26. S or N 27. It may be lent or bent 29. Doris Day title starter 30. William Tell's canton 31. Pothook shape 32. Rode the bench 34. Mauna __ 37. Wall St. debut 38. Chaotic place 40. Record exec Davis, who's getting the boot 41. Jazz players 42. Village Voice award 43. Iditarod terminus 44. Peripatetic sort 46. F or G, but not H 47. Scott in 1857 news 48. Israeli negotiator...