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...painless formula for keeping divorce rare. Japan has a low divorce rate--and divorce is considered so shameful that it actually harms one's career. Victorian England had a divorce rate close to zero long after divorce was legalized--and men who left their families risked being ostracized. In 1950s America, when the divorce rate was still fairly low, Victorian stigma was still half-alive...
...born in Jamaica in the 1950s and championed by the likes of Bob Marley in his early career, Ernest Ranglin (who has a new CD out) and the Skatalites (ditto). In the late '70s ska resurfaced in the unlikely setting of Coventry, England, where the small but influential 2-Tone label brought back the sound with acts like the Selecter and the Specials (who just released a comeback...
Wolf also discussed the advent of knowledge-based industries such as biotechnology to the area after the demise of manufacturing plants around Central Square in the 1950s and 1960s...
...United States and South Korea to mediate four-party talks aimed at reaching a permanent peace on the Korean peninsula. A South Korean newspaper today quotes Jiang as saying, "We hope to play a constructive role for peace on the Korean peninsula." The two Koreas ended their 1950s hostilities with an armistice, and are technically still at war. Until now, there had been no official word on China's reaction to the April proposal by President Clinton and President Kim Young-sam of South Korea, though China's first, non-committal comments were promising. TIME's Jaime FlorCruz reports from...
...professor was also a staunch defender of academic freedom. As chair of Harvard's Physics Department in the 1950s, Bainbridge opposed the activities of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee...