The Future of American Youths

 Complete Idiot’s Guide to American History

Youngsters craved the experience of new music (a development of the rock ‘n’ roll that had started in the 1950s) and new clothing—colorful, wild, casual, sometimes evoking the bygone world of British Edwardian extravagance and sometimes suggesting the realm of that ultimate thorn in the side of the American dream, the hobo. As they looked with distrust on their elders (“anyone over thirty”), 1960s youth indulged in so-called recreational drugs. True, previous generations had had their overindulgences, especially alcohol, but for many of those coming of age in the 1960s, drugs became an integral part of everyday life. With thermonuclear war an ever-present danger, with an ongoing war escalating in Vietnam—a meatgrinder into which American youth were regularly tossed—and with social justice still an elusive goal in America, there was much to protest and reject in mainstream society. Marijuana was one form of protest, alternative, and escape (all rolled up into a cigarette called a roach or joint). Sex (which many youth in the 1960s saw as a synonym for love) was another

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Thompson and Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, "Retrospective Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Polio Vaccination in the United States", Risk Analysis 26, no. 6 (2006); и Tebbens и др., "A Dynamic Model of Poliomyelitis Outbreaks: Learning from the Past to Help Inform the Future", American Journal of Epidemiology 162, no. 4 (июль 2005 г.). 16 Примеры других простых и дешевых методов медицинских решений приведены в Marc W. Kirschner, Elizabeth Marincola, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, "The Role of Biomedical Research in Health Care Reform", Science 266 (7 октября 1994 г.); и Earl S. Ford et al, "Explaining the Decrease in U.S. Deaths from Coronary Disease, 1980-2000", New England Journal of Medicine 356, no. 23 (7 июня 2007 г.). 17 Машина-убийца: Количество автомобилей в 1950-е годы приведено в "Topics and Sidelights of the Day in Wall Street: Fuel Consumption", The New York Times, 25 мая 1951 г. 18 Обеспокоенность вопросами безопасности в отрасли описана в статье For industry fears over safety concerns, see "Fear Seen Cutting Car Traffic, Sales", The New York Times, January 29, 1952. 19 Странная история Роберта Макнамары и ремня безопасности: этот раздел основан на данных из нескольких источников, в том числе интервью авторов, взятых у Роберта Макнамары незадолго до его смерти. См. также статью Harry Kreisler "A Life in Public Service: Conversation with Robert McNamara", 16 апреля 1996, из серии Conversations with History, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley; фильм "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S

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