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Call it the Good Friday rampage. At twilight on April 1, a brown Cadillac sedan glided up to the corner of Vernon and Raymond avenues in South Central Los Angeles. Words were exchanged between the young men in the car, members of a Crips street gang, and a 16-year-old who was hanging out on the sidewalk. Suddenly, the mobile "gangbangers" blasted the youth. A moment later, they turned their guns on a pedestrian across the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bloody West Coast Story | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Because Where Go Our Feet? is a dance show with relatively few words, the instructors spend a lot of time teaching the children "how to convey a feeling to the audience." Hernandez says. In the show, the Graham and Parks students perform a dance about a street gang, so "we worked on looking cool and getting that image across to the audience," she says...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Cambridge Kids Step Out With Style | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...major production numbers include the street gang scene, featuring the Graham and Parks kids, a baseball game scene starring the Tobin School students and a scene in which the Longfellow children act out the Tarzan story. The finale features 140 Citystep kids and undergraduates...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Cambridge Kids Step Out With Style | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

Cray, IBM and AT&T could be upstaged, however, by a determined gang of innovative computer designers who have already moved beyond 64 processing units to build machines that divide their work among hundreds, even thousands of processors. Last week scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque announced that they have coaxed a 1,024-processor computer into solving several problems more than 1,000 times as fast as a single-processor machine acting alone, an unprecedented speedup that suggests the performance of supercomputers may in the future be related almost directly to the number of processors they employ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fast and Smart | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...north Miami shootout, posse gunmen killed a six-year-old boy on the doorstep of an ice-cream parlor. At Fort Lauderdale's Firemen's Benevolent Hall, Jamaican gang members killed one person and wounded several others when they emptied their machine guns during a reggae dance. Since witnesses are often too terrified of retaliation to testify against the gangsters, suspected posse assassins usually escape conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The War Is Being Lost | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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