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...deny that some families have this problem of coddling, pushing and overachieving - but not one of these problems is the public menace it's supposed to be. "A social trend is whatever is happening to a newspaper editor and the editor's friends," Claude Fisher, a professor of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley, says with a laugh...
...educations and then crashed the workforce rather than just getting married, they were a bellwether of society's changing face. But now that so many drive a Lexus and push an $800 baby stroller, I'm not sure they are still a significant bellwether. They're trendy, but the trend they represent misses the typical American family by a mile...
...asked most frequently by relatives and total strangers is not whether I'm having a girl or a boy, but whether I'm having a C-section. Vaginal childbirth is very out these days in Tehran. The procedure is quickly edging out the nose job as the dominant medical trend among Iranians, a people very fond of surgery. No longer the provenance of last-minute complications or doctors' liability fears, Caesarean delivery is viewed here as the modern woman's choice. An Iranian politician I interviewed recently even worked the normalcy of a C-section into a metaphor describing Iran...
...Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, notes that although Islamic law allows for the forced conversion of ?unbelievers,? it explicitly forbids its use upon Christians and Jews. He says contemporary stories of such conversion are ?extremely rare,? and that the Evangelical voices who see it as a trend, he says, are engaged in ?a polemic...
...quality of the student body isn’t going to decline, if the numbers go down slightly,” he added. But Stoneham said he does not believe that the numbers will decrease in the long run since he sees the elimination of early admissions as a trend that other schools will follow. “Colleges are grinding their teeth about early programs. My assumption is since Harvard has made this move others will be emboldened to do the same,” he said. —Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached...