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...president Rudenstine today, and he's looking very well," Rowe said. "He told me that he'd made a sizable dent in his much postponed reading pile...
Right from the start we made a big dent...
...recreation and training can < contribute directly to declines in crime and juvenile-arrest rates. The message may be getting through. A small but growing number of mayors and judges, most of them Republicans, are breaking party ranks to say that it's prevention, not inflexible punishment, that puts a dent in crime...
While three-strikes laws falter, prevention puts a dent in crime...
...skulls and skeletons, fetal remains of offspring that could never be human, shadowy effigies of things that went bump in the night. The Mutter's polished wood, gleaming brass rails and dark oil paintings suggest the library of a wealthy if eccentric 19th century aristocrat. But when professor Thomas Dent Mutter bequeathed his collection to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1856, he intended it as a teaching aid, a guide to the eccentricities -- however terrifying -- of the human body. "This is absolutely serious, scientific and educational," said Mutter director Gretchen Worden. "That's the only...