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the number of countries armed with mis- siles more than doubled during the past decade, to 18. The United States and the Soviet Union began developing ballistic missiles in 1953, and until recently they shared the missile manufacturing monoply only with France and China. All four be- came active missile merchants. And now new missile makers are emerging.
The list of Soviet customers is daunting. Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Algeria, Egypt, and Iraq are among those who have o...
? "Europe 1992: Opportunities and Challenges" Gary Clyde Hufbauer, in The Brooking5 Review (Summer 1990), 1775 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Judging by the headlines, you would think that Japan is this nation's only major trad- ing partner and competitor. It is easy to forget that the 12 nations of the European Community (EC) purchase a quarter of all
U.S. exports, more than any single nation. And nearly half of the $76 billion that the EC spends in the United States buys...
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Kids And Capital
A surprising remedy for Americans' notori- ously low rate of personal savings is per-ceived James McNeal, writing in Ameri-can Demographics (Sept. 1990).
Today, children are viewed by business as in- dependent customers. But just how much clout do children actually have? Almost $9 billion worth, according to a nationally repre- sentative sample of children ages 4 to 12 sur- veyed in 1989. This figure is up from $4.7 billion in 1984, an 83 percent gain. .. .
Children's in...
1988, only 30 percent were.
Most of the losses poor nonelderly families are explained by reductions in the contributions of men to family income. As is well known, more and more families are poor because they lack a male breadwin-
The Change in Family Incomes, 1979-88
(Nonelderly Families)
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The stark portrait of inequality above changes if the elderly are included: Then, only the poorest quintile loses ground (five per...
the likes of Amos Taylor, a former New Hamp- shire schoolteacher who took to peddling books and pamphlets during the 1780s. Taylor traveled the back roads of the Northeast selling such items as 17th-century English chapbooks, Indian captivity narratives, and even some of his own literary efforts. Taylor thought of his own role in heroic terms. Such "men of an excellent charac- ter," he wrote in The Bookseller's Legacy
Massachusetts shopkeeper Silas Felton was a typical consumer of the...
all. The idea is man, hence a contemporary at all times. to teach children that "their We smile at this naivete, but they understood Aristotle bet- identity is determined ter than do our scholars, as one can see simply by perusing 'cultural genes.' " More per- their commentaries. Pluto and Kant claim that they speak to
all men everywhere and forever, and I see no reason to re- nicious still, the particular- ject those claims a priori. But that is precisely what is done ist vision implies...
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Lasch, a historian at the University of Rochester, is one of the few authorities who refus'e to blame the schools for this depressing state of affairs. The fault, he as- serts, lies squarely with the American press. Once the great inciter of public de- bate, it has settled into the role of mere purveyor of information. "When we get into arguments that focus and fully engage our attention," Lasch writes, "we become avid seekers of relevant information. Oth- erwise we take...
the time the first real newspa-
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
pers were started in Boston during the early 18th century, the teleological import of the news had all but vanished. Even so, Nord argues, journalism continued to feel the Puritan influence. "The news would remain event-oriented, devoted to unusual (but conventional) occurrences, and de- pendent on reportorial empiricism." The chief difference is that, today, "no one knows what the stories mean."
Locke's Lapses &qu...
Men sort them, are made Men."
Where does Glausser stand? He thinks that slavery is integral to Locke's thought, but only as part of an ambiguous "destabi- lizing competition of values."
"The Roots of Muslim Rage" by Bernard Lewis, in The Atlantic
The Muslim Mind
Monthly (Sept. 1990), 745 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 02116.
The Cold War may be over but the clash of civilizations is not. Even if the inhabitants of what was once called Christendom still cannot quite bel...
Robert S. Root-Bern- stein, in Perspectives in Bioloev and Medicine (Summer 1990), Culver Hall 403, 1025 E. 57 ST, Chicago, 111. 60'637, and "Is the AIDS Virus a Science Fiction?" Peter H. Duesberg and Bryan J. Ellison, in Policy Review (Summer 1990), 214 Mass. Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
The whole world is waiting for a cure for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Yet medical researchers may have made a fundamental mistake. They may be wrong about its cause.
The generally a...