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...rather than pursued his studies on how best to preserve the birds, he would have faced lesser penalties. Peters, who is filing for a reduced sentence, says he will study the work of other raptor experts while confined in Leavenworth, which happens to be where the famous Birdman of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, first began assembling his aviary in 1920 and wrote his digest on the diseases of birds...
Lapointe said plans were moving quickly to prepare for future problems and not only as a result of a few bad experiences. "We don't want to make the place look like Alcatraz, but we have to prevent these machines from being lost, stolen, or carted out of our buildings," he explained...
...book about the experience. Although reading such stuff can be fun, the armchair adventurer feels a certain guilty unease. At this very moment, for instance, while the reader's arteries are slowly clogging, alarmingly energetic people like David Horning are out there somewhere, training for races like the Alcatraz Challenge. This is a particularly gruesome example of the newly popular self-torture called the triathlon: a 1.5-mile swim in cold and swirling water from San Francisco's Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park, a 20-mile bicycle trek that crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally...
...train fares, hotel, meals, gasoline and other tourist essentials, Americans, taking advantage of the favorable exchange rate, are spending more time and money in Italy than ever before. For returning visitors bent on escaping the usual roster of sun, sea, pasta and churches, cultural organizations like Alcatraz (no connection with the San Francisco penitentiary) offer courses in such offbeat subjects as ceramics and theater furniture making. Cooking courses abound, notably New York-based Marcella Kazan's in Bologna...
Most Americans' images of prison life have probably been shaped by Hollywood, from James Cagney's White Heat to Clint Eastwood's Escape from Alcatraz. TIME's Special Section this week sets out to capture the raw reality of both prison life and the people subjected to it. To this end, Staff Photographer Neil Leifer took his cameras over a period of a year to six state prisons, including one for women, and a federal penitentiary. He returned with an extraordinary collection of several thousand photographs...