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...some 90% before they were 19. Some critics believe the industry is deliberately capitalizing on adolescents' desires to be popular and attractive by attributing those qualities to smoking / in its $2.5 billion annual ad spending. "You certainly don't see ads featuring 65-year-olds," notes Karl Bauman, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying arm, disagrees: "Advertising doesn't get people to smoke. High school kids haven't seen ads for marijuana...
...some sharp challenges to the poll's roseate view of American wedlock. Says June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind.: "We estimate that approximately 37% of married men and 29% of married women have at least one extramarital affair." A survey conducted by Lillian Rubin, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, shows a 40% infidelity rate for spouses. Greeley and Harris have two explanations for the disparity between their poll's results and the conventional wisdom: 1) most sexual surveys are either obsolete or unscientific; 2) people are victims of what the authors call...
With the untimely death of Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins in December and the imminent departure of junior sociologist Roderick Harrison, Afro-Am will enter the next academic year with at most two hold-overs from this semester...
...elsewhere in the West since Pope Pius XII allowed the first such dispensation in 1951.) Although church officials have sought to avoid publicity about the unusual American program, it has been chronicled in a new book, The Pastoral Provisions: Married Catholic Priests (Sheed & Ward; 152 pages; $13.95), by priest-sociologist Joseph H. Fichter of Loyola University in New Orleans...
...SOCIOLOGIST Arlie Hochschild says she hopes her book Second Shift can help the current generation of college students live happy married lives. "I would like the book to be a rescue operation in a way," she says. "Many of the young people I talk to are bright and engaging...but are not brilliant about [future marriage problems]. They are denying the difficulties ahead...