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...humanely controlled animal overpopulation. In addition, Question One allows the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, scientists and people who have "reasonably" but unsuccessfully tried to control an animal problem on their property to apply for a limited permit to use the banned methods. Thus Question One would reserve the cruelest methods as last resorts and prevent their use as sport without allowing animal overpopulation to go unchecked...

Author: By Piper Hoffman, | Title: How Will You Vote on Question One? | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...Paris, transformed into a haiku of loss. And somewhere lost in the waters too is an unuttered promise, a diamond ring to accompany a proposal to a lover who must now long for the rest of her life. The miasma off the beaches of New York was the cruelest of elements, mixing the memory and desires of the dead with the terror and fears of the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...what did those Pleistocene fellows know about the modern singles scene? Because here is the cruelest irony of all, which the warning labels should also be required to address: no bathing suit, no matter how artfully filled, can guarantee reproductive success; in fact, the foxier you look in it, the more likely you are to be a target of male contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL SWIMSUIT ISSUE | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...cruelest injustice, however, involves public transportation--because jobs in Erie County, as elsewhere around the country, have been migrating to the suburbs, where they often become inaccessible to inner-city blacks. Several new industrial parks north of Buffalo, for example, have roads that are too narrow and have no turnaround room for the cumbersome buses that ply big city routes. Kenneth Cowdery, who runs a job-training center in Buffalo, says he saw more than 100 jobs go unfilled last year because his mostly black clients couldn't find a way to get to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...that we must balance the budget, and it is fair to expect a wide range of people to share the burden. But cutting student aid so drastically at a time when skyrocketing tuition costs make it increasingly impossible for families to pay for their children's education is the cruelest way to make ends meet. Newt Gingrich calls what he is trying to create an "opportunity society." Yet he is robbing millions of young people of the opportunity to go to college...

Author: By Seth D. Hanlon, | Title: COLUMN LEFT | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

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