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...security mental institutions after they've completed a jail term - if the state can prove the offender poses a risk to the outside world. Now, lawyers for Michael T. Crane, who was convicted in Kansas of exposing himself to a tanning-salon attendant and sexually assaulting a video store clerk back in 1993, say their client does not fit that profile. State prosecutors, on the other hand, say Crane does pose a threat, and want to lock him up after he completes his sentence...
...first byte. "I couldn't get enough," he says. "As soon as I sat down at it, I got it." He skipped lunch hours and stayed late after school to get a turn at the terminal. Neither of his parents?his dad is a machinist, his mom a store clerk?had even used a typewriter. Hungry for more than he could learn in his small hometown, Eyestrain went to Manila at age 17 to attend Systems Technology Institute, a technical college that offers low-cost programming courses. The classes were disappointing: Eyestrain found that he knew more than his teachers...
...enumerators spread out in pairs to wake up those asleep and take down the details of their lives. The man who ran an open-air "hostel"?some two dozen charpoys (woven twine and wooden beds) parked illegally on the pavement behind the city's great mosque?threatened the census clerks with a "good thrashing" if they didn't leave. "We find this all the time," one clerk sighed. "People think we are government spies. They still suspect us even when we tell them all the information is confidential...
...Such complications aside, the commissioner says many questions experts would like answered aren't asked: everyone would lie about issues like salaries, housing costs and property values. Getting honest answers to basic questions is hard enough. "How old are you?" a census clerk asked a middle-class woman at the door of her apartment in Hyderabad, central India. "You have no right to ask me my age," she replied, "but I'll tell you nonetheless if you must know. I'm 29." The clerk checked his list: "That's the age we have for you at the last census...
...father John, a carpenter and cabinetmaker and railway mail clerk, is taking his leave of this world in a bedroom that was mine when I was 18. I lay where he is lying now, in the northeast corner of the room, and looked out the window at night to a red blinking light on a distant water tower and imagined living in New York City and other grand things, and now at 87 he lies in the bed and imagines the risen Christ meeting him with open arms, as in the hymns that his morning nurse Ramona sings...