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...G.O.P. nomination as Dole's to lose. In Le Mars, at least, he seems on the verge of doing just that. Someone else might not win outright, but if Dole's showing in Iowa falls below the 37% he won in '88 against a far stronger field, his predicted lock on the prize could break quickly...
...prison populations, those have more than doubled in the past 15 years. Most criminologists believe that a relatively small population of repeat felons is responsible for a disproportionate share of crime. Lock away the most energetic thieves and killers, and you make a serious dent in their business. "Most prisoners are violent or repeat offenders," says William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and drug czar. "Prisons do cut crime." Last week Bennett's Council on Crime in America, a commission he co-heads with Griffin Bell, who was Attorney General under Jimmy Carter, issued a report warning that violent...
...intimidating, I buy food with that money. I pay rent, utility bills," Brown said. "If they were to lock us out of teaching positions, it's either loans or another...
...EINSTEIN STRIKES AGAIN Although it was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago, scientists have just now found a new form of matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate. By cooling a cloud of rubidium atoms almost to absolute zero (-459.67¡F), the physicists forced them to march in lock-step formation, just as Einstein said they would...
...while prep school ties and blood lines may lead to membership for some club members, few of the clubs are truly elitist any more. Exclusivity is not the same thing as elitism unless there is some accepted standard of superiority that constitutes membership. When a group of hockey players lock themselves in a room drinking themselves into a coma becomes your idea of haute couture, then you've truly spent too much time watching "Ricki Lake...