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...hopelessly overwhelmed by the demands of modern life. To permit those who would flounder even in the slowest lane to fend for themselves on very mean streets is an act not of social liberality but of neglect bordering on cruelty. In the name of a liberty that illness does not allow them to enjoy, we have condemned the homeless mentally ill to die with their rights on. --By Charles Krauthammer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When Liberty Really Means Neglect | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...bound from Athens to Cairo with 98 passengers and crewmen aboard. As investigators milled about on the tarmac of the airport at Valletta, Malta's capital, police and rescuers sifted through the fuselage for victims, their possessions and any clue that might help explain what had happened aboard the ill-fated craft. Occasionally a stretcher shrouded in plastic would emerge, a macabre reminder that the jetliner had become a tomb for 57 travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Massacre in Malta | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

About 1.7 million houses were completed in the U.S. this year, and a great many of them were homely--lousy craftsmanship, ill-used sites, confused, graceless. All of which makes a new Omaha development called West Fair-acres Village especially promising. The architects, John Goldman and Daniel Solomon, have designed housing the old-fashioned way, comfortably dense, with a pleasantly irregular street grid and just enough stylistic variation. The basic model is an adapted Craftsman bungalow, circa 1920, but a buyer of a one-story house can mix and match from among four brick porches and four compatible timber gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Of '85: Breaking Out of the Box | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...hope the world is still here the next time Halley's comet comes around. Kristine Haugen Downers Grove, Ill. Challenging Marcos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...attends the mother and child." These teenage and older men are not the forgotten partners. In most cases the male abandons the female when she tells him that she is having his child. The double standard still exists in the area of teenage pregnancy. Sister Jean Kenny River Grove, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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