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...difficult to get a true fix on the nation's position is the permanent characteristic of the age-the bewildering speed of change. The fact is often stated. But just recognizing it is little help in trying to grasp the impact. In the past three generations, the everyday life of Western man has changed more than it did in the previous 2,000 years. A revolution in farm technology has shifted huge populations into teeming cities. Already 73% of Americans live on only 1% of the land; by 1985, U.S. cities will swell by the equivalent of five...
Undersea cities, fish farming, household robots, the learning of languages in sleep, choosing the sex of children in advance-such things have become nearly as predictable as simple everyday improvements like rubber-bottomed garbage cans. Science-fiction writers are becoming the prophets of the day after tomorrow...
...Besides Behavior, they include: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Encounters, Stigma and Interaction Ritual...
...SUSPECT FIRM, STUDY SHOWS WASTE BY PENTAGON, LYNDA BIRD'S PAL WINS CHILE POST and ARMY'S M-16 PROGRAM is "UNBELIEVABLE." All appeared above exclusive stories produced by what the Associated Press calls its Special Assignment Team, a group of Washington-based reporters with deceptively everyday faces and an unusual mission: to ignore daily deadlines in search of what its leader calls "the submerged dimension" of the federal government...
...something now for future benefit." No matter how frightening the statistics, the public will go on getting 40% of its calories from fats that are almost 100% saturated. "Government," Kannel suggests, "may have to engage in a little environmental engineering to make sensible diet an automatic, unconscious part of everyday life...