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Minority communities have called the problem DWB -- driving while black. Police departments around the country have denied that they target minority drivers for traffic stops, searches and arrests. But confirmation of the practice came this week from none other than New Jersey -- one of the states where the accusations have been the strongest in the wake of an April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME...
...admission by New Jersey, the result of a two-month investigation that revealed that 77 percent of cars searched by state troopers were driven by blacks or Hispanics, was proclaimed by New Jersey governor Christine Whitman herself. While the visibility of the announcement -- Whitman is a rising star in national Republican politics and is running for the Senate in 2000 --will highlight the problem for many people, for most African-Americans, ?this will not come as a bombshell,? says TIME reporter Harriet Barovick. ?Many will remain skeptical that the mere revelation will bring any immediate changes.? Perhaps. But Governor Whitman...
...kept it close in the first half, trailing only 6-4. But the Tigers' (5-3, 4-0) talent took over at the start if the second half rattling off five consecutive goals to win 12-8 Saturday at Class of 1952 Stadium in New Jersey...
...rebel army is already preparing for its next offensive, tapping support from a widely dispersed Albanian diaspora that reaches as far as New Jersey, where last week K.L.A. representatives held an event. And in the regions around Kosovo, the K.L.A. is sharpening its rudimentary training and logistics network. The key element of that web is a recruiting operation that may have pulled in thousands of battle-age men. In Albania, near the town of Durres, unarmed ethnic Albanian volunteers from Western Europe (countries like Switzerland and Germany are a particular source) head toward the border with supplies...
...video equipment in return for showing kids a daily TV newscast filled with commercials. Now some companies are allowed into schools to do their market research. Noggin, an interactive TV network created by Nickelodeon and the Children's Television Network, meets with more than 300 students at a New Jersey school during lunch and recess for the express purpose of finding out "what sparks kids." To thank Watchung School for its cooperation, the network has "contributed" $7,000 worth of keyboards. Education Market Resources conducts focus groups in schools on behalf of Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Mattel and advertising...