Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decrease in the number of cases of sudden-infant-death syndrome (SIDS) in countries where parents were urged to keep their kids on their sides or back. In the U.S., SIDS cases number 6,000 annually. Child-care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock told TIME Daily that the conventional wisdom on this issue has frequently flip-flopped over the years. Advice from America's Baby Doctor emeritus: Parents should accept the new evidence and abide by it, but realize that placing babies on their back is no guarantee of safety...
...prosperity but because of a decrease in people's sense of well-being. For instance, a study of Nigerian communities revealed that bad economic times in recent years caused young Yoruba families to turn to contraception even though infant mortality was rising -- a development that directly contradicts conventional wisdom about the demographic transition...
Conventional wisdom holds that poor women in Mexico City should have more children than their counterparts in the U.S. who have better health care and a higher standard of living. But peasant families tend to have two or three children in Mexico City, while those who immigrate to the U.S. average four or five children. In crowded Mexico City each child imposes steep costs on a family, while in the U.S. welfare payments and other social safety nets buffer those costs. These skewed incentives convey similar signals to poor young women in America's inner cities, who in many cases...
...relevance to any onlooker. From Look Homeward, Angel to Brighton Beach Memoirs, plays on this topic have been talk, talk, talk. So it is startling and satisfying to see a 68-ft.-wide stage crowded with white tigers, monkey kings, acrobats, sword fighters and 18-ft.-tall spirits of wisdom gliding by % serenely as California's Berkeley Repertory Theatre unfolds The Woman Warrior, a version of two visionary coming-of-age novels by Maxine Hong Kingston...
There are, however, no "priestesses." Benson said, "Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace." That kind of male chauvinism has been challenged by feminists in the church. "It's an organization that can't find balance between men and women or between formal authority and individual conscience," says Maxine Hanks, a fifth-generation Mormon whose book Women & Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism claims women exercised priesthood powers in the 19th century when church followers were struggling...