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...Missouri, if crime does not pay, criminals will. Twenty-six dollars to be exact. Under a state law that went into effect last month, any person convicted of any crime is automatically required to pay $26 into a crime-victim compensation fund. The curious amount, which includes $1 to defray the court's collecting expenses, was chosen because it was considered a debt to society that almost any criminal could afford to pay. Supporters of the measure estimate that approximately $250,000 will be raised annually. Crime victims and survivors can collect a maximum of $10,000 for hospital...
...entrance of the third member of this curious mismatch, a woman named Rosie (Claudia Silver), perhaps inevitably banks some of the flames that have been building, despite Moore's somewhat strained attempt at creating a melodramatic entrance. Silver carries herself with an appropriate semi-toughness, but the part offers a little less room for maneuver than do the others, a little less sense of transcending the ordinary. There's only so much Silver can do with the almost stock character of a supposedly worldly-wise girl with a heart of gold...
...packages, which proved to be part of a curious campaign of what might be called environmental terrorism, were a protest against a government action that took place four decades ago. In 1941, fearful that the Germans might launch a series of airborne biological-warfare attacks against the civilian population, British authorities asked scientists at the Porton Down bacteriological research unit to conduct a series of experiments. The site: Gruinard Island, a bleak, uninhabited, 1½ mile-long patch of land that lies just 600 yds. off the west coast of northern Scotland. The tests were conducted with Bacillus anthracis, better...
...Administration with a plan to win the war was replaced by an Administration with a plan to end the war, the suffering seemed to go on forever. So a generation of American writers has come to look at the central mechanics of American life with a deep, stunned, curious detachment...
...center of the red-and-white-striped big top, Arlene Yaple, 63, surveys her domain: prize pumpkins, homemade brownies, dried cornstalks, okra and an American flag crafted of apples and grapes. Square dancers do-si-do to the bidding of a caller on a stage near by, while curious passers-by gape at a 325-lb. squash lying near Yaple's feet. Above the huge oval ring where the plump, gray-haired woman is sitting hangs a carefully lettered wooden sign that reads, "Arlene Yaple: for 35 years superintendent of Granges and Big Top displays. Danbury Fair thanks...