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...DIED. JOHNNY UNITAS, 69, famed football quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to three NFL championships in the 1950s and 60s; in Timonium, Maryland. Unitas broke virtually every league passing record in the course of his 18-year career, and was named the greatest quarterback of all time in a poll commemorating the league's 50th anniversary...
...your new job three years ago. That's a long lag time. RATTLE: A friend said, "You must be getting some idea of how Prince Charles feels." But there were many changes to be made. The structure we were working under until recently was more suited to a 1950s bureaucracy. The new arrangement we've reached with the government allows us to be independent and to have more control over our funds. The fact that we can look for major sponsorship is completely new in Germany...
...many of China's cities have become shrouded in gray clouds of dust: it's cheap to pollute. Millions of Chinese drive mopeds and old automobiles that don't have catalytic converters, and much of the nation's electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. Technology from the 1950s, after all, is at bargain-basement prices. But that's because the prices don't reflect the hidden costs of air pollution: deaths from lung illnesses and millions of dollars wasted on health-care bills and lost worker productivity. The situation is the same the world over. The price of goods...
...steady flow of orphaned and abandoned Korean children like Cox, adopted into American homes in the 1950s, that started the trend of transracial adoptions here. The numbers have jumped since then: according to ins records, in 2001 more than 19,000 children from other countries--a figure that has tripled over the past five years--were adopted into American families. And since legislation passed in 1995 dictating that adoption from the foster-care system be color-blind, interest in transracial adoption has also boomed...
...policies of communist China's original Chairman, who was born in a Hunan village only a few hundred kilometers from Orange Island. Convinced that Chinese peasants could stuff their granaries if they would only grow more and more rice, Mao ordered peasant communes to "plant grain everywhere." In the 1950s, work brigades flew banners reading "Turn Waste Land to Great Land" as they drained the lakes along the Yangtze and its tributaries and seeded them with crops. Families settled on flood plains. The enormous Dongting Lake, once a valuable catch basin during years the Yangtze swelled with the melting snows...