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...social norms” marketing, an anti-alcohol program based on the notion that most college students overestimate their peers’ drinking, does not effectively control alcohol abuse. But some researchers and social norms proponents say the report’s results are flawed, alleging that Wechsler??s methodology is skewed toward a favored outcome...
Wechsler told The Crimson that even in these years there was western television everywhere in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), although the authorities discouraged children from watching it. The East German public struggled to reconcile competing images of cold capitalism with the glamorous America of Hollywood films. Wechsler??s background provided him unique insights into the mysterious United States in politically isolated East Germany...
While Crossing the River is Wechsler??s first major American work, he authored five books while in East Germany. The subjects of these books ranged from general American history to the history of American music up to Bruce Springsteen...
...first section of Crossing the River, about Wechsler??s American youth, was originally published in German in the 1980s under the title Route Across the Border...
With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and an inflow of American and West German commercial products, demand for Wechsler??s insights diminished. Wechsler sustained himself during this gap by translating and providing voices for 200 episodes of the television western series Rawhide...