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...Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back from an addiction to cocaine. The electoral wave of last November, he says, ``was so big that some people crashed ashore who normally would not have been here...
Mary Pierce won her first grand slam tennis title, taking the Australian Open singles crown Friday night. For those of you scoring at home, she didn't wave to the camera...
...sperm counts are sinking fast -- and have decreased inexplicably by a third over the last twenty years, a new study shows. The study, conducted by the Cochin Hospital Group in Paris, will appear in tomorrow's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It reinforces a wave of other research suggesting the quality and quantity of semen is declining among men in industrialized countries. The French study shows the concentration of sperm dropped by 2 percent per year -- from 89 million per milliliter of ejaculate in 1973 to 60 million in 1992. A sperm count of under 20 million...
Unfortunately, as the Tofflers have gone on pointing out during the past 15 years, the third-wave pioneers are still stuck with all those vestiges of a second-wave society: big corporations, big government bureaucracies, smarty pants in mass communications who stubbornly think that information remains theirs to spoon-feed to the unwashed. In Microcosm (1989), Gilder reaches, by a somewhat different route, the same dismissal of old-line thinking and technology that the Tofflers do. In a chapter titled "The Death of Television," he writes, "In an age when computers will be responsive to voice, touch, joysticks, keyboards, mice...
...mail and other tech talk may be the third, fourth or nth wave of the future, but old-fashioned radio is true hyperdemocracy. Very hyper. Like the backyard savants, barroom agitators and soapbox spellbinders of an earlier era, Limbaugh & Co. bring intimacy and urgency to an impersonal age. "If we still gathered at town meetings, if our churches were still community centers," says Marvin Kalb, former CBS reporter who is teaching at George Washington University, "we wouldn't need talk radio. People feel increasingly disconnected, and talk radio gives them a sense of connection...