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...Barry Cook, who heads a group that analyzes rating methods for the networks, is concerned that the sight of a camera on top of their TVs might make people self-conscious, affecting their viewing habits and skewing the results. And some would be sure to see in the new device a computer-age version of Big Brother's telescreen -- the two-way television that monitored the citizenry in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...young criminals is that they show no remorse or conscience, at least initially. Youths brag about their exploits and shrug off victims' pain. A Chicago case in which four teenagers raped and killed a medical student was solved because of good police work and what Pat O'Brien, Cook County deputy state's attorney, describes as "the defendants' inability to keep their mouths shut" about the crime. "It was a badge," he explains. "It was something they talked about as if it gave them status within that group of guys." Youngsters offhandedly refer to innocent passersby caught in the line...
...interpreters for those who do not speak English. So far, though, only 308 people have passed the rigorous Spanish-only federal certification process -- a cadre far too small to handle the 43,000 annual requests for interpreters in 60 languages. The situation in the states is bleaker. Last year Cook County, Ill., processed 40,000 requests, and the New York courts sought out interpreters 250 times a day. As in the federal system, Spanish is the language most in demand...
...more than 100,000 prisoners have been freed in the past year before completing their terms. In Oregon, whose prisons are bulging with 5,000 convicts jammed into cells designed for 3,000, one inmate is released for each new one taken in. At Chicago's Cook County jail, many prisoners bed down on floors and in hallways. Says William Currie, spokesman for the Cook County sheriff's department: "The whole criminal-justice system is like sausage in a sausage machine. Somehow everything's gotten stuck...
FOOD: An Italian cook stresses the basics...