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...West Bend, Wis., bought a shirt at the local Goodwill store and found $2,000 stuffed in the pocket. That's pretty amazing--$2,000 stuffed in the pocket. The more amazing part: How did one of Tom DeLay's old shirts wind up in Wisconsin?" --JAY LENO...
Unless alternative programs for dangerous criminals are created, some experts say, incarceration will serve only to escalate the viciousness of American crime. "It animalizes people," says Criminologist Richard Korn of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "They sit in there building fury." Says Charles, the young Bloods gang member: "This place is a pigsty. People come off the lock-downs anxious to kill." Self-serving as that comment may be, a harsh fact remains: more and more cons, both inside the prisons and reunited with fellow gang members on the outside, do just that...
...Issey Miyake jacket. This kind of action gets by books like these, partly because most of them are written for readers with a shaky grip on individuality, by authorities who are probably spending too little time on the street and too much in front of the mirror. --By Jay Cocks...
...Colombia Charles A. Gillespie released an immediate $25,000 to local authorities. Within 36 hours the first of three U.S. C-130 Hercules transport aircraft flew from Howard Air Force Base in Panama to a Colombian military airport at Palanquero bearing some 500 family-size tents. In Washington, Jay Morris, deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that "we have been working around the clock to monitor and respond to the emergency requirements of the survivors." Administration officials affirmed that the U.S. relief contribution to Colombia would quickly top $1 million. But the total, warned Morris...
...captured the imaginations of Central Europeans with hundreds of carefully researched, evocative paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult following in the Czech Republic , particularly during the totalitarian era. "Burian, who along with his nation was denied freedom in the second half of his life...