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...with crime can be summed up by what happened on Jan. 7 in Vidalia, Georgia, a small town known mostly for its sweet onions. Before dawn, dozens of state and federal law officers started banging on doors all over the town's north side. Within minutes, 46 gangsters and crack dealers were in handcuffs, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, while law-abiding neighbors cheered the gangbusters. The task force had been called in by Vidalia's 26-man police force, which had recently found itself outgunned by homegrown drug sellers who were terrorizing citizens and making daily death...
Mortality rates in urban young--and misery rates too, if anyone keeps such figures--will be affected for years to come by cocaine, heroin and casual gunfire, and by teen pregnancy. Medicine now has to deal with crack babies and AIDS babies and, increasingly, premature babies born to single teens who had no prenatal care...
...religious groups than any country in recorded history,'' observes J. Gordon Melton, who will list 1,600 denominations, 44% of them non-Christian, in his next Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of these have blossomed since 1960; some are homegrown, others imported by immigrants. Judaism, the first faith to crack Christian hegemony, is today deeply rooted in the U.S., although it is being eroded by secularization, low birthrates and high levels of intermarriage. Some experts say ethnic Jews will be outnumbered by ethnic Muslims early in the 21st century...
...shower, pack and go to the airport by 11 o'clock?'' he asks. Cochran insists that ``In terms of the facts, I've had tougher cases.'' In 1990 he defended former Diff'rent Strokes star Todd Bridges, who was arrested for firing eight bullets into a man in a crack house--a man who survived to identify Bridges. Cochran won an acquittal. It was perhaps the most dramatic illustration so far of his extraordinary talent for making jurors see things his way. ``Apart from the fact that he is a very skillful lawyer,'' says friend and fellow lawyer...
Meanwhile, more capable Russian military reinforcements were streaming into Chechnya to join the 40,000 draftees struggling to take the capital. Crack marine units and front-line troops arrived from the North Sea Fleet and Kaliningrad -- the slice of Russia between Poland and Lithuania -- while soldiers and even sailors were flown in from Vladivostok in the far east...