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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...teachers and parents worked with police to clean things up. Prison inmates were bused in to sweep crack vials from the school playground. Parents cruised Southside armed with cell phones, ready to dial police at the first sign of trouble. Now when Douglas circles the neighborhood, kids bolt out of their homes as if she were the Good Humor man. "She's not afraid to walk up and down the streets like she's lived here for years," says Emily Valenzuela, a mom who lives a block away. Neither are the dozens of kids from Mesa's ritziest zip codes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Charter Schools Pass The Test? | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...mochacappafrappadecafochino extra foam, the clerk will be steaming someone else's soy milk, and that will be that. Yeah, yeah--the last thing New Yorkers need is a stimulant. But it's amazing to watch so many of them walk up to the door, peek in and bolt. If they can't get it yesterday, they don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service: Getting Queued In | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

After Jacob Davis used a magnum bolt-action rifle to mow down his girlfriend's ex-lover at his Tennessee high school in 1998, he dropped down beside the bleeding body. A friend came over and said to Davis, "Man, you just flushed your life down the toilet." Davis replied, "Yes, but it's been fun." The fun didn't last. Today Davis is serving a 52-year term at a medium-security correctional facility in Clifton, Tenn. Before the shooting, he had received an academic scholarship to study computer science at Mississippi State University. Instead, he takes a prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices From The Cell | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...turned political columnist Hu Chung-hsin. "He doesn't know how to make a deal." Chen has vowed to form a coalition with one of the two opposition parties after December's legislative elections. The challenge may be to find a partner. A year ago, Chen was able to bolt together a leadership team simply because he was Taiwan's pioneering, non-Kuomintang President, the first head of state not affiliated with Chiang Kai-shek's founding party. That novelty has worn off. He's the mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan's Little Big Man | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Outside, where the lightning bolt had tunneled the air, stray leaves fluttered down from the maple tree, smelling of spent electricity. The leaves looked like the fluttering canary feathers in Sylvester and Tweety cartoons after the cat has gobbled a bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Farm, the Animals Go On the Prowl | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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