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Borrowing an idea from British police who noted a decline in shoplifting when life-size cutouts of bobbies were placed in stores, three Kroger food stores in Dallas have installed "scarecrooks" in high-theft areas on their shopping floors. Under each 6-ft. cardboard cutout is the slogan SHOPLIFTING IS A CRIME. Though no would-be thief is likely to mistake the cardboard coppers for the real thing, the cutouts help convey the message that pilfering is illegal. Says Kroger security director Charlie Tyner, "It's a startling way to say the same old thing...
...Olympics. Deborah Sussman's graphics and Jon Jerde's evanescent architecture for the Games of the Los Angeles Olympics were homogeneous, sunny, reassuring, nice. The color palette of the cardboard columns and fabric-covered fences was precisely of its time and place, beach-blanket postmodernism come to temporary life. For mere millions of dollars (rather than hundreds of millions), an Olympiad found its perfect aesthetic expression...
...regretted by many opposing linemen, he opted to try football. "It was strange to me, but I had my size, strength and speed going for me, and I learned as I played," he says. Azusa Pacific football coach Jim Milhon recalls that a teammate once jokingly brought out a cardboard sign with an arrow showing Okoye which way to run. During his three years on the Azusa team, the Nigerian scored 33 touchdowns and won a berth in the 1987 Senior Bowl, where he scored four times. N.F.L. scouts were soon on to Okoye's case. "He's big, strong...
...calls. Some sat seething by their telephones for as long as three days while calls bounced between agencies. When relatives of John Ahern, 26, went to New York City's Kennedy Airport, they were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative was present to help them. "They stripped him of his dignity," says Ahern's sister Bonnie O'Connor. "He should have come home with an American flag on his coffin...
What Mazzafro did was offer Michael large doses of love and patience. That formula had already worked wonders with Tuan, now 14, a Vietnamese refugee who had come to Mazzafro four months earlier, speaking no English and still toting the cardboard box that had been his bed at a relocation center in Malaysia. Now he's an honors student at the local junior high, while Michael has become a computer whiz with his sights set on Princeton. Meanwhile, Joe Mazzafro is applying his methods to Brandon, 9, his third adopted son, who tumbled through nine foster homes in his first...