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...record numbers. The bad news: the prisons are already full. So concludes the Justice Department, which last week reported that as of December 1985, 503,601 people are now behind bars, 53% more than were incarcerated in 1980. Mandatory sentencing laws have prompted the increase, says a Justice Department expert. But this swelling tide has filled many U.S. prisons beyond capacity. Last year the lack of available cells forced corrections officials in 19 states to grant 18,617 prisoners early release...
...affirmative action and busing, depending on the circumstances. Significantly, however, he wrote the majority opinion in Fullilove vs. Klutznick, a 1979 case explicitly upholding the use of quotas to set aside 10% of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses under a public-works act passed by Congress. Supreme Court Expert Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute suggests that Scalia would not "cotton to" such a decision and predicts a "move to a more color-blind jurisprudence." In a 1979 article in the Washington University Law Quarterly, Scalia bluntly stated his views: "I am, in short, opposed to racial affirmative...
...toes and looked human to some. The fact that the two varieties of tracks were made at about the same time, creation scientists have long claimed, shows that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. But thanks to the efforts of investigators like Glen J. Kuban, a computer programmer and amateur track expert--who also happens to believe in the Creator--creation scientists have conceded that the second set of tracks was not human after...
...futuristic plan for a missile-defense shield that would render nuclear weapons obsolete. "It had already established itself as the most contentious issue on the Soviet-American agenda," says Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who proposed a conference on the SDI controversy that would produce a "coherent, focused and expert debate for the benefit of correspondents and editors and, through a special report in the magazine, for TIME's readers." The conference, which took place in Washington on June 3, was the basis for this week's cover stories...
This vision, too, may be a little far-fetched. Still, says Patrick Gordon, a communications expert at the Yankee Group, the Boston-based high-tech research firm, "the integrated services digital network is not a blue sky, Buck Rogers fantasy. It's already...