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Most important, the problems connected with crime -- inadequate schooling, unemployment, drugs, unstable families -- must be addressed as part of America's prison crisis. "Look, I'm not a bleeding-heart liberal; I'm a realist," says Singletary. "But the cure for our crime is not prison beds and juvenile boot camps. We need to do something about juveniles at the school level before they get here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: America's Overcrowded Prisons | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...ears. In one of the most startling spikes in the history of polling, large numbers of Americans are abruptly calling crime their greatest concern. Confronted by clear evidence of a big issue, politicians everywhere, including the one in the White House, are reaching for their loudest guns: prisons, boot camps, mandatory sentences. Months before the start of baseball season, the air is full of shouts of "Three strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Lock 'Em Up!?And Throw Away the Key | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

These political "boot camps" are part of a statewide effort to get students involved in the Republican Party, said Racho...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Wanted: Student Votes | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...Hubble could never have been repaired without human hands; opponents argue that without NASA's insistence that the telescope be launched by shuttle, the instrument could have gone up in the late 1970s, at a fraction of its eventual cost and into a higher, more useful orbit to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Nasa Do for an Encore? | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...Broadway Bound, this play does not give the narrator a penchant for candor. We hear little about how this way of working helped or hurt his craft, satisfied or thwarted his soul. Structurally, the piece owes much to Biloxi: a group in thrall to a dangerous leader, a boot camp that hardens the head more than the heart, a tense scene where some teammate is to be unjustly cast out, a summing-up of everyone's future fate. But Biloxi had tragic overtones, while Laughter on the 23rd Floor is comedy, comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punch Lines, But Little Punch | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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