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...best-educated generation in U.S. history. A record 59% of 1988 high school graduates enrolled in college, compared with 49% in the previous decade. The lesson they have taken to heart: education is a means to an end, the ticket to a cherished middle-class life- style. "The saddest thing of all is that they don't have the quest to understand things, to understand themselves," says Alexander Astin, whose UCLA-based Higher Education Research Institute has been measuring changing attitudes among college freshman for 24 years...
...example, the candidate's newfound support for capital punishment. Even members of Dr. King's organization, for which Young worked in the glory days of the '60s, will give him only qualified support. The Rev. Mr. Lowery continues, "I support Andrew Young, not because he is colored -- for one thing, he ain't all that colored...
...sides. In the 1976 presidential campaign, he convinced Northern liberals that Jimmy Carter was acceptable on racial matters. When Carter asked him to be ambassador to the U.N., Young said Barbara Jordan was better qualified. Carter, according to Young, replied, "You're right. But you have the one thing she doesn't have -- a connection with Dr. King. If we are to be convincing on the matter of human rights around the world, we have to show we take them seriously at home...
...after- dinner speeches. Listen to Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, baseball's answer to George Jessel, rattle off run-on cliches about his mediocre team: "We got to keep going out there and battle. We've got to believe that we can win." But the most striking thing about managers is their preternatural awareness that they have less job security than the East German government. "Every manager's job is in jeopardy," says Houston Astros skipper Art Howe, who is in enough jeopardy to be a contestant on the TV game show. "Managers are hired to be fired...
Whatever its potential, HGH-replacement therapy is not a cure-all for aging. For one thing, cells of the brain, eyes, ears and elastic tissues such as ligaments and tendons are not responsive to HGH. "The ((Wisconsin)) study does demonstrate clear-cut effects of growth hormone," says Dr. Mary Lee Vance, a University of Virginia endocrinologist who wrote an editorial accompanying the report, "but to say it reverses the effects of aging is an overstatement. It's just one part of the equation." Other processes that may influence aging include cumulative tissue damage caused by destructive particles called free radicals...