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Explosive population growth and a torrent of migration from the countryside are creating cities that dwarf the great capitals of the past. By the turn of the century, there will be 21 "megacities" with populations of 10 million or more. Of these, 18 will be in developing countries, including some of the poorest nations in the world. Mexico City already has 20 million people and Calcutta 12 million. According to the World Bank, some of Africa's cities are growing by 10% a year, the swiftest rate of urbanization ever recorded...
SOMETIMES ONLY DEATH WILL STIR THE living. Last week the continuing horror at three deaths from a fire bombing -- of a 51-year-old grandmother, her niece and her granddaughter -- and the torrent of denunciations that followed the deaths did just that, shocking German officialdom into wakefulness. Demonstrations that began the day after the Nov. 23 attack in the northern city of Molln persisted through a funeral gathering in Hamburg that attracted 10,000, and then into last weekend, when a crowd many times as large gathered in Munich. Images of marchers carrying banners asking such questions as HOW MANY...
...wake of this movement, which came to be known as Modernism, an entirely different tendency arose. The Modernists had been elitist, scornful of mass values and tastes. Now their worst nightmares came true. Postwar culture after 1945 began to drown Modernism in a torrent of mass entertainment, facilitated by film, TV, records and a host of allied electronic innovations. At the same time, during the '50s and '60s, a form of institutionalized rebellion took hold among the world's youth as a cultural norm. The old, normal urge to flout authority was greatly magnified and aided by the ubiquity...
...council's own chamber. The row between U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the U.N.'s center of power turned even more acrimonious when the Secretary-General suggested, in an interview published in the New York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly nodded their assent, reflecting the deep North-South rift within...
...start of the Olympics, the TripleCast, as NBC dubbed it, was as famous as any of the U.S. athletes. Network promos for the pay-TV package began running months before the Games began. Early reports of slow sales inspired a torrent of press stories that a financial disaster was looming for NBC and its partner in the venture, Cablevision. David Letterman started making jokes...