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...reeling dollar reflected fears of recession. The Federal Reserve Board appears ready to spur the economy by letting interest rates fall, but that could further undermine the dollar by making U.S. investments less attractive to foreigners. Unemployment reached 5.3% in June, up from 5.2% in May, another sign of a slowdown...
Although the national differences have not been adequately explained, some researchers see American suicides as being more heavily influenced than in the past by drugs and alcohol, which lead to more spur-of-the-moment self-killing. One recent trend in the U.S. has been a sharp increase in suicides among people under 24. Although some of the older victims in TIME's survey seemed to plan their deaths -- leaving wills or notes about their illnesses, for example -- many of the younger ones acted after arguments. Girls shot themselves in front of their boyfriends, husbands killed themselves after their wives...
...some cases, poverty can help spur violent crime. Many ghetto residents have little sense of hope or opportunity, and feel they have little stake in preserving society. Boys often have trouble forging a masculine identity without one of the primary accompaniments -- a job. Teen unemployment is endemic among poor youth, running more than 40% in many communities. Meanwhile, welfare and social programs suffered drastic cutbacks during the Reagan era. Says Chicago psychiatrist Carl Bell: "Violence is the weapon of the powerless." Agrees Professor Leah Blumberg Lapidus of Columbia Teachers College in Manhattan: "It relieves boredom and makes a statement, like...
...response to the report has been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already heavy administrative loads. Under this version, there would be little guarantee that departments with bad hiring records would improve their practices...
...Rumors of cheating on January final exams spur first-year B-School students to discuss creating an honor code...