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Afro-Am is currently conducting a search to fill either a senior or junior slot in the social sciences, Huggins says. And Sollors has said that a joint appointment is in the works with the Music Department to replace the retired ethno-musicologist Eileen J. Southern...
...separate study, the NTSB chronicled serious flaws in the air-traffic- control system for Southern California's airports. Though the FAA knew of cramped working conditions in control towers and a high level of errors, the agency allegedly took no action to improve the situation...
Much of the trauma comes from the fact that the benefits are rarely spread equitably. "There's a widespread feeling that Chinese society has become unjust," says Stanley Rosen, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. "The decisions as to who will do well seem arbitrary results of government policy." Entrepreneurs and party officials profit from the economic reforms, but office workers and intellectuals do not. So while an individual's expectations are conditioned by the prosperity he sees around him, that newfound affluence is cruelly out of reach for many. TV, with its ubiquitous images...
Sweetwater, Tenn., is so small (pop. 5,300), Southern and sedate that local teenagers consider it sport to ogle the traffic on Friday nights. Last week, however, residents had something unusual to engage their attention: Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, the first fully accredited Japanese high school...
Whatever the location, though, the Evangelicals are handily winning the game of enlisting members. Most mainline churches do not consider it their mission even to compete. Despite mainline emphasis on racial justice, conservatives in , the Southern Baptist Convention and Assemblies of God are more adept at recruiting urban blacks and Hispanics, just as they are more successful at planting new churches in growing suburbs. When John Vaughn of Southwest Baptist University compiled a list of America's fastest-growing Protestant congregations, 445 of the 500 were outside the mainline...