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There is some consensus here, and indeed throughout Hutchinson, about what should be done: "Kill the damn things." But the men at Skaets disagree somewhat on tactics. Earle Smith, a "semiretired" carpet retailer, proposes opening the fairgrounds to hunters and charging "a dollar a dog." Bill Moran, a fully retired manager of a grain company, thinks they could be a fine addition to the menu at Skaets. And Don Collins Jr., who still has a few years before retirement, looks through the window at the cold rain and suggests that the offending rodents might make excellent earmuffs...
...their dens serve as motels for many other mammals, insects and even birds. Researchers are beginning to discover how their barks and squeaks constitute one of the most complex languages in the animal kingdom. Animal-rights advocates defend the winsome fur balls: they are, in the words of a Hutchinson member of the Doris Day Animal League, "delightful to watch, even if they are of the rodent form...
...story of how these groups clashed and ultimately settled their differences offers a glimpse into precisely the kind of grass-roots democracy the Founding Fathers might have envisioned--had they had the imagination to conceive that a rodent the size of a can of tennis balls could embroil Hutchinson in its most explosive animal-rights debate since last summer. (That was when a dog was accidentally dragged down Main Street from the back of a pickup truck.) The ruckus erupted earlier this year when the city decided that a patch of grass at the back of the fairgrounds was perfect...
Leroy Hendricks had done his time. In August 1994, after serving 10 years for taking "indecent liberties" with two 13-year-old boys, Hendricks walked out of prison in Hutchinson, Kans.--and was almost immediately transported to the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility, where he has been locked up ever since. Under a 1994 state law called the Sexually Violent Predator Act, a judge ordered Hendricks confined indefinitely after ruling that his "mental abnormality" made him likely to attack again. Hendricks challenged the constitutionality of that law, but last week, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld...
Flora's ability to attract a foreign high-tech company shows that many Americans have come to embrace rather than fear new technology. The Internet seems to have even more impact on information flow in small towns than it does in large cities. I spent the night in Hutchinson, Kans., at the home of John Scott, who was a missionary in what used to be Zaire and now runs a volunteer housing program. After dinner, I asked him what the latest news was in the Congo, and he turned on his computer to check out the Websites of people...