Occasionally, my fits of nostalgia are jolted severely by reading or hearing some johnny-come-lately wax eloquently on the progress of the past several decades while decrying the lack of sophistication and diversity of the 1940s and ‘50s. Admittedly, the advances in medicine, such as heart transplants and the elimination of polio; in space travel, to the moon and several planets; in science and physics; and in communications, the Internet in particular, have been nothing short of spectacular.
Parents are no longer disciplining children at home
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. CST;
updated 2:51 p.m. CST, Monday, February 2, 2009
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