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...document that Harvard engineers go farther because of their broad education and the fact that they didn't over-specialize," Brockett adds...

Author: By John M. Bernard, | Title: Department Works to Gain Recognition | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...still be repressed politically, but their sexual behavior has undergone a sweeping liberation. The past decade of economic and social reform spawned a new permissiveness that was not suppressed by the soldiers sent to occupy Tiananmen Square. For the first time, Chinese sociologists have conducted extensive surveys to document the spread of the sexual revolution in the world's most populous nation. Their main conclusions: like most other populations, the Chinese are having more sex outside marriage and are becoming increasingly adventurous in the ways they make love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Straight Talk on Sex in China | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...history of faking is nearly as old as the history of art, and for as long as there have been documents, there have been forgeries. "This is not a lie, it is indeed the truth," runs an inscription of the earliest forgery we know, a Babylonian cuneiform inscription from the 2nd millennium B.C. pretending to be one from the 3rd millennium. "He who will damage this document, let Enki fill up his canals with slime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brilliant, But Not For Real | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...danger that hotheads will explode during the three-week spearfishing season. "There's fear among people who don't know one another and are suspicious that the other is getting something they aren't," says Robert Tully, a "peaceful witness" who came to Lake Nokomis to observe and document events. "These are all people who love the north woods, but they aren't communicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walleye War | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...republic can survive alone. Georgia not only can feed itself but also has sufficient reserves of oil, coal and hydroelectricity to meet its energy needs. Furthermore, the republic boasts mineral deposits plus undeveloped forests, Black Sea beaches and Caucasus mountain peaks. The major drawback for Georgia, argues the document, is that "its energies are constrained by the limits of an economic system imposed from the outside." The union proposes "shock treatment" for one year to build a free market out of the republic's thriving underground economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Freedom's Haunting Melody | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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