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...fathered by adult males, many of whom do not stick around to support these infants. In California, which has the highest teen-pregnancy rate in the country and which pays out between $5 billion and $7 billion annually in state and federal aid to families begun by teens, Governor Pete Wilson has decided to make would-be statutory rapists think twice. Last summer he allocated $2.4 million to a pilot program for 16 counties to begin prosecuting men who engage in sex with underage girls, and this month Wilson pledged $6 million more for a statewide crackdown...
...blowsy as it is, this biography of the great American humorist has some appeal. Begun as an undergraduate thesis in 1948, it has been the avocation of a lifetime for Kinney, who is a free-lance writer. His children, now grown and gone, have lived with it all their lives. Parodying the Thurber memoir, The Years with Ross, they told their father that he should call his effort The Years with Thurber. The writing radiates the author's affection for his subject and a poignant willingness to take up the cudgels against any claim that Twain was Thurber's superior...
...wanted fugitives, was arrested by Mexican authorities Sunday after a lengthy manhunt, and was turned over the next day to U.S. officials. Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez reports: "From the perspective of the U.S., Abrego's arrest and deportation is very positive. Relations between the two countries had begun to sour recently amid speculation about government corruption and complicity in the drug trade. Abrego's capture shows the U.S. that the Mexican government is finally getting serious about cracking down on the drug trafficking in the country. It's playing rather differently here in Mexico, where many people think...
...answer, sad to say, was "Not much." When the Dolphins lost to the Buffalo Bills by a score of 37-22 in a Dec. 30 play-off game, their season, which had begun with such promise, was over. In the off-season, Shula spent $12 million of Huizenga's money in free-agent bonuses, and when the Dolphins jumped off to a 4-0 start, the folks in the Miami area were not only talking Super Bowl, they were talking '72, the year the Dolphins went undefeated. But beginning Oct. 8, Miami lost six of its next eight games, then...
Residents of eastern states have begun to dig themselves out from the "Blizzard of '96," another snowstorm is bearing down on the region, threatening to further slow cleanup efforts of the storm that has paralyzed much of the east. Starting sometime Friday, forecasters are calling for up to 2 feet of snow in parts of western Maryland, with at least several inches predicted for most of the coast. TIME Daily'sspecial coverageincludes reports from the National Weather Service and TIME correspondents in RealAudio, plus a look behind the weather and select links to other Web resources.SNOWJACKED!If New Yorkers drank...