Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your hand or have a dangerously high fever. The trauma center is designed for ultra-emergencies such as car accidents or head injuries--only the most life-threatening cases. Neither is meant to deliver babies or shelter the homeless. And neither can afford to put drug dealers and gang members back on the streets, only to lose another $100,000 the next time someone shoots them...
...while a money transfusion may tide these hospitals over until next year's gang warfare season, it will not even come close to solving the problems. For hospitals to keep taking emergency cases, the public has to start addressing a host of social ills it has ignored all-too-conveniently in the past...
...played Army's wishbone and we contained them," Neumann said. "I wouldn't say these guys are better than Army," We're going to know where they're going with the ball. We have to be gang-tackling them. After each play, it should be like a reunion...
State and local officials have been unable to come up with any comprehensive solution to the gang problem. Meanwhile, demography is making radical changes ; in Southern California's gang life. South Central Los Angeles, where the Bloods and Crips began, now has more immigrant Latino youths than African- American kids. Poor black families have moved out, sometimes to the South, to keep their children out of gangs. "In five years," says educator David Flores, a gang expert who runs special school programs, "the Crips and Bloods will cease to be a serious problem there." Perhaps. But Sergeant Wes McBride...
...Navy prides itself on its fighting spirit, but down in San Diego they've got a little too much. Some sailors have apparently been joining Southern California gangs, prompting Admiral Robert Kelly to order an investigation. Crews from rival warships have brawled. In August a sailor was wounded in a drive-by shooting at an enlisted men's club. The Navy has asked San Diego police for help in identifying gang members...