Word: instead
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...rest of us any day now. But that indicator too is unreliable. Many of these "echo boom" youngsters reached their teens during the 1990s, yet crime still plummeted. Experts say the good economy gave these kids something to do (even if it was just taking orders at McDonald's instead of robbing it). More important, the decline of crack removed a crime-soaked job opportunity...
...will be wildly ironic if the end result of the attempt to replace the Wasp elite with a new one of philosopher-kings is, instead, a return of the plutocracy that was upended by the Wasps a century ago. Many of the best-known Wasp grandees (like Averell Harriman) spent their life trying to undo what their plutocrat fathers had done. The creators of the succeeding admissions-test elite wanted to take decision-making power about who got to the top away from the marketplace and give it to the schools. If the country has decided it would be neat...
...fits-all model of marriage may have been one of the biggest sources of tension between the sexes all along--based as it is on the wildly unrealistic expectation that a single spouse can meet one's needs for a lover, friend, co-parent, financial partner, reliably, 24-7. Instead there will be renewable marriages, which get re-evaluated every five to seven years, after which they can be revised, recelebrated or dissolved with no, or at least fewer, hard feelings. There will be unions between people who don't live together full-time but do want to share...
...fashion designers, the idea of the future usually extends only as far as next season. But when TIME asked a coterie of top designers to look a bit further, one thing became clear: our closets will not be stocked with unflattering space suits. Instead we'll see (mostly) sensible clothes featuring fabrics of greater comfort and adaptability--happy news for those who don't look good in silver
...nowadays 14 is rather late to get in the cyberharness for a position somewhere down the road at Oracle. This trend will only continue and even speed up as parents and children alike see the advantages in mastering change at an early age, when human beings are most adaptable, instead of in their 20s, when there's a risk that they'll be behind the curve. And it's in the national interest to encourage this, since one solution to supporting a populace top-heavy with retirees is putting the young to work as soon as possible...