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...accept the physical and emotional brutalization of children as a matter of course. Children kill because their spirits have been killed. LYNN WEISS Bastrop, Texas...
...euphemism is "alternative education setting," but "solitary confinement" would be more accurate. For more than six weeks, school officials in Bastrop, Texas, have sentenced eight-year-old Zachariah Toungate to a 10-ft. by 13-ft. isolation room all day. His crime? Refusal to cut his 7- in. ponytail. Zach is taught by substitute teachers but is banned from his gym classes and from eating in the cafeteria. He says he has nightmares that the walls of the classroom will close in and crush...
...been especially hard hit. Sixty-three hospitals have had to close in the past five years, 34 of them in rural areas. Now 49 of Texas' 254 counties are without a hospital; at least 13 do not even have a doctor. Referring to the loss of the recently shuttered Bastrop hospital, outside Austin, board member Susan Cartelli groans, "Now Friday- night football games at the high school can be a nightmare...
...Bastrop Daily Enterprise Bastrop...
...never put their paper to bed without a pin-up girl in it. Like their "Gripevine" column, the pretty creatures helped build circulation (now 375,000), and hold it when mustered-out readers had to be coaxed over to the veteran's edition. But an irate letter from Bastrop, Tex. momentarily shook the editors' faith...