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...gone through some changes since then, I saw and read about Angie Davis and some other females of our kind...The look of love from a rebel breed--I like it. I'm weak...
...Astrodome. Still, great progress has been made in improving conditions for zoo animals, primarily because zoo officials are now considering animal habits as well as habitats. Take cheetahs. After studying them in the wild, naturalists at the San Diego Zoo discovered why they are particularly difficult to breed in captivity. The animals are usually caged in "big cat" houses near their natural enemies-lions. By separating the felines, zoos find that the cheetahs will be calm enough to breed and raise their offspring...
...legend Texans are a grandiose breed with more than the natural share of megalomaniacs. But University of Texas Biochemist Earl B. Dawson thinks that he detects an uncommon pocket of psychological adjustment around El Paso. The reason, says Dawson, lies in the deep wells from which the city draws its water supply...
Reforms, of course, will not solve the large social problems of racial prejudice, inadequate housing, poor schools and lack of jobs, which breed so much of the nation's violent crime. With its cultural gaps between white and black, poor and middle class and affluent, the U.S. has very special problems that do not afflict other countries-Sweden or Denmark, for instance-where prison life seems more civilized. The problems are further complicated by a widespread and partly plausible belief that all of the nation's crime and prison troubles result from some fundamental loss of discipline...
...seldom came back for more. Prison then was a real deterrent. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. They have got television in prisons now and transistor radios in cells. There is a choice of grub and they get weekend leave to allow them to go home and breed more criminals." Unless "firm measures" are taken, the officers argued, the now safe streets of London will become as dangerous as New York's in five years. (In the first half of 1971 there were 37 murders in London, while New York...