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...killed in the conflict with Iraq. His mother, like many of the other widows at the cemetery, carefully washes her husband's gravestone, then sits with one hand on it in prayer. "We come every Friday," says Hussein. Soon his mother may be left alone to tend the graves. Hussein is ready, eager even, to join the war. "My mother doesn't want to lose me," he says, gazing steady-eyed at the sobbing woman. "But yes, I will go because I hate [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein and I want to avenge the deaths of my brothers and father...
Baby boomers tend to play more roles than did most of their predecessors. In 1940, notes Census Bureau Demographer Art Norton, "there were fewer important life-course events in American living. People got married at 21, finished child-bearing at 31, had a spouse die at 64 and lived alone after that." Now an individual may experiment with independent living, live as part of an unmarried couple, get married and divorced a number of tunes, live with children without a spouse. Says Norton: "There are all kinds of new transition points." Yet the rate of change has leveled...
...surprise of many educators, the youngsters tend to score handsomely when they move on to high school. "Once there was a stigma attached to going to a one-room school, like you were a hick or something," says Ralph Kroon, field director of the Montana Rural Education Center at Western Montana College. "Now it's a back-to-basics phenomenon." Nowhere is the phenomenon more vital than in Nebraska, which has 300 public one-room schools, more than any other state, and where parents have collected 85,000 signatures for a 1986 referendum on stopping further consolidation...
...could be a mantra for today's postideological China. What is in some ways most striking about the country, as new middle-class consumers flock to shopping malls, is how normal it feels. Although billboards celebrating the glory of the Communist Party can still be found in Beijing, they tend to elicit derision instead of deference--and even Chairman Mao's visage has morphed into a Pop-art commodity in the capital's avant-garde galleries...
...profoundly changed his life. "Whenever Steve gets all uptight and starts to blow, I tease him and say that's not what the Dalai Lama would do, and it helps him greatly because he knows intellectually that he's on the right path," she says. "Guys who are entrepreneurial tend to give short shrift to the family. He's become a much better family man as he gets older. He's become a very good grandfather...