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...steps of her Manhattan home. Jrae Mason was 13 cm taller and weighed considerably less than the fugitive, and looked nothing like her photograph. Bounty hunters handcuffed her, and thus began a five-day escapade that ended with Mason's being turned over to the sheriff in Tuscaloosa, Ala. When she turned out to be the wrong person, the bondsman gave her a $24 bus ticket back home, says her lawyer David Breitbart...
...when you look a little closer at these findings, they start to seem a bit murky. To begin with, observes Dr. Den Trumbull, a Montgomery, Ala., pediatrician who is vocal in the spanking debate, the mothers ranged in age from 14 to 21. That is hardly a representative slice of American motherhood. Moreover, those who spanked did so on average twice a week. These factors, says Trumbull, plus the fact that some of the kids were as old as nine, "are markers of a dysfunctional family in my mind, and in the minds of most psychologists and pediatricians...
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ZELPHA STOREY WELLS, 60ish, TUSCALOOSA, ALA. Pianist and Music Educator...
...return, the demand of that aid will be inexhaustible." Nevertheless, at least one food-bank manager believes the increased demand is just part of the adjustment that must occur as welfare reform takes hold, a necessary transition to better times. Parke Hinman, who runs a food bank in Montgomery, Ala., has seen demand rise to include families with wage earners. But, he says, "if we can provide them food, we may be the boost they need to work themselves out of the circle of poverty." Well and good, says Ann Eissler, who coordinates the area's food banks...