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...truth, the problem isn't quite as pressing as it was a few years ago. With crime rates dropping, so is juvenile crime. But felonies by kids had exploded over the previous 10 years, a legacy of the crack trade and armed gangs, so the recent decline is still a dip in a high plateau. From 1985 to 1995, juvenile arrests for violent crimes rose 67%. Perhaps a fifth of all violent crimes is the work of teens. "In America today, no population poses a greater threat to public safety than juvenile criminals," says Representative Bill McCollum, the Florida Republican...
...Incoe Corp., who claims to have seen stills of the movie hanging in plastics-company offices all around the country. "It changed my life," says Vince Witherup, who, given his visceral enthusiasm for the ways in which industry R. and D. has benefited society (like supplying airlines with less crack-prone cups), seems to be only half-joking. Witherup, vice president for international sales and marketing at the Conair Group, a manufacturer of auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry, was a recent college graduate in 1967. Back then he already suspected that plastics was an "exciting" field--an impression that...
...copies in the U.S.; recent releases by such vaunted acts as the Future Sound of London and Underworld have moved fewer than 60,000--the Spice Girls sold more than that last week. Even the Chemical Brothers, after a media push that would make Madonna blush, has failed to crack Billboard's Top 10. And what's worse, these CDs have been creatively wanting--the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks) features a few songs that energetically blend rock and hip-hop, but Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys did it better in the '80s. The Future Sound...
...book Rocking the Ages, Yankelovich's Smith and his colleague Ann Clurman blame Xers' woes on their parents: "Forget what the idealistic boomers intended, Xers say, and look instead at what they actually did: divorce. Latchkey kids. Homelessness. Soaring national debt. Bankrupt Social Security. Holes in the ozone layer. Crack. Downsizing and layoffs. Urban deterioration. Gangs. Junk bonds...
...Another Crack...