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...reality is that the President, no matter who he may be, is only one force in a very large and cantankerous world. Indeed, even as the park custodians were cleaning up the Mall after the march, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that in the previous twelve months world population climbed 82.1 million, the largest gain in the history of this weary globe. In the view of Lester Brown of Worldwatch Institute, which monitors global stress, population is the most awesome problem. Masses of people shouldering each other for food, space, wealth and dignity are at the root of most wars...
Nonetheless, rape remains one of the most misunderstood and underreported crimes. Only 3.5% to 10% of rapes are reported, according to an aggregate of surveys done by the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI and the National Opinion Research Center. Using conservative estimates, experts calculate that a woman's chance of being raped at some point during her life is an appalling 1 in 10. But as the social stigma on rape victims begins to lessen, they are fighting back through the legal system, reporting their cases and seeing them through to prosecution. The number of reported rapes has steadily risen...
...joblessness are most certainly needed if the economy is to repair the ravages of last year's recession. As Democrats rushed to point out, even a 9.5% unemployment rate is higher than any that the U.S. suffered between 1941 and 1982. Partly because of high unemployment, the Census Bureau reported last week, the number of Americans living in poverty (now officially defined as an annual cash income of $9,862 or less for a family of four) rose last year to 34.4 million, or 15% of the total U.S. population. That was a full percentage point more than...
...work force. Traditional benefit plans have been mainly geared to single-income homes in which husbands work and wives tend to the children; But a survey of Comerica's 5,200 employees, for example, showed that only about 13% were living in such once typical households. The 1980 census reported that 51.3% of U.S. women over the age of 16 had joined the labor force, compared with 37.7% in 1960. The number of families supported by one breadwinner, meanwhile, dropped to 33% from 48.3% over the same period. Says Philip M. Alden Jr., a benefits specialist with...
...farewell party in Jerusalem for high school graduates entering military service, a mob of ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with clubs and metal bars, not only disrupted the festivities but also partially destroyed the community center where they were being held. Another group of fanatics ransacked an Israeli census office, claiming that counting people violated divine law. A yeshiva student walking home one evening was seriously wounded by knife-wielding youths; they were apparently retaliating against the actions of militant religious groups. At a performance of Handel's Messiah by the Utah Oratorio Society, young firebrands repeatedly interrupted the concert...