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...harshest of consequences, but it is their poor luck alone that accounts for their special fate. Countless minors continue to purchase alcohol unobstructed. Granted, the example of others may serve as a deterrent, but there are far more just ways of enforcing the law. If the CPD wishes to crack down on the illegal purchase of alcohol, they should focus the brunt of their efforts on the adult proprietors of the 32 liquor stores, not errant 15-year-olds looking to buy some beer. If the CPD makes it clear to local stores that violation of the law will...
...Small Towns in America, but as its population has grown from 11,000 in 1990 to more than 13,000 today, the town began getting metropolitan headaches: unplanned development, relentless traffic (36,000 vehicles roll through town every day, 5,000 of them trucks), crime and drugs--even a crack house and a youth-gang problem. Newcomers and old-timers are seeing their visions of small-town life clash, with cultural battles erupting in school-board and city-council meetings. "I moved here because I wanted the cohesiveness and convenience of a town where you could walk to everything," says...
...Dooleys didn't know it, but Wilmington's felony-crime rate had nearly doubled in the five years before they got to town. Armed robbery and crack-cocaine use are on the rise. "We've heard bad things about the high school," says Ruth. "They say there are racial problems." She pauses. "I'm not even sure how diverse this area...
Federal officials are in an especially delicate position. Marijuana use, even for medical purposes, is still outlawed by the U.S. government, and Attorney General Janet Reno has vowed to continue enforcing that law. But federal officials have been reluctant to crack down on the pot clubs that were created in response to the will of California voters. In April agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a Bay Area cannabis club called Flower Therapy and seized 331 marijuana plants and growing equipment, charging that the club was distributing pot in quantities larger than what was needed by its ill customers...
...think President Clinton is going to that game,? said Harkes upon hearing that the Iranians would get their first crack at the country they call ?Great Satan? since the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Teheran in 1979. U.S. Soccer Federation President Alan Rothenberg was more philosophical ? "Maybe we can have soccer diplomacy like we had ping-pong diplomacy with China," he said ? if not optimistic. "The only thing that can make it better is if FIFA designates an Iraqi referee," he added...