PASSAGE 29Live with ComputerAfter too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes indec...
PASSAGE 26 Looking to the FutureWhen a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machine...
PASSAGE 24The National Park ServiceAmerica's national parks are like old friends. You may not see them for years at a time, but just knowing they&...
PASSAGE 22Early or Later Day CareThe British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachmen...
PASSAGE 20Rockets in the SkyIf someone asked you, "What color is the sky?" I expect that you would answer, "Blue." I am afraid tha...
PASSAGE 18Martin Luther King Jr.By the time the Montgomery Improvement Association chose the 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader, the hou...
PASSAGE 16SleepWe all know that the normal human daily cycle of some 7-8 hours' sleep alternating with some 16-17 hours' wakefulness and that,...
PASSAGE 12 The Barbie Dolls In the mid 1940’s, the young ambitious duo Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden pictures frames...
PASSAGE 10SmugglingIt is not unusual for a pet to be sent by air cargo from Colombia to New York, but last December's shipment of a 4-year-old she...
PASSAGE 8New York - The Melting PotRecently the Department of Planning of New York issued a report which laid bare a full scale of the city. In 1970, ...