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...does not have to be either a psychologist or a sociologist to recognize that, if it were widely known that 10 topless women were walking down Park Avenue and 10 topless men were walking down Madison Avenue, the effect on the traffic on Park Avenue would be substantially greater than on Madison Avenue." --Federal Judge John S. Marvin, yesterday, in his opinion upholding a New York City law banning female topless dancing in residential areas...
...1970s Montana sociologist Robert Balch infiltrated the group and traveled with them through California and Arizona for two months. During the 1970s, the cult suffered from a dramatic attrition rate, until Applewhite instituted what Balch describes as an "intense regimentation." Do had recruits follow detailed schedules--waking for prayer at precise times, taking vitamins at, say, 7:22 p.m., consuming yeast rolls and liquid protein--and had them do drills, mental and physical, to prepare the flock for outer space. According to a man named Michael, who was with the cult from 1975 to 1988, recruits experimented with their sleeping...
DIED. KINGSLEY DAVIS, 88, sociologist and demographer who coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth; in Stanford, California...
...Reimer told a Senate committee that among those 170 trainers there are "a few bad apples." But Hoster's allegations, if true, suggest a more pervasive rot. "Because of Aberdeen, the non-commissioned officers are the part of the Army under the most scrutiny for sexual harassment," says military sociologist Charles Moskos. "When the sergeant major of the Army, the top NCO, is accused, it symbolically represents the entire NCO corps," the band of veteran soldiers who bridge the gap between officer and grunt...
...Larry Bobo is a superb empirical sociologist who has been engaged in research and thinking about some of the central demographic and policy issues about America today," Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol wrote in an e-mail message. "I am delighted that he is coming...