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...version of a so-called "flim-flam" robbery, a Lock...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...order to prevent anyone else from gaining unlawful access to the House, Hanson asked students to lock their suite doors always and not to allow others to "piggyback" into already opened entryways...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: Homeless Man Enters Winthrop | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...Church Institute, which has ministered to ocean mariners for 165 years, was expanding to the nation's towboat fleet. Within months, Wilkinson and his colleague Karen Cox were staring at a pastoral fiefdom encompassing the Ohio River, part of the Cumberland and the Mississippi from Greenville, Miss., up to Lock 27 above St. Louis--1,808 miles as the catfish swims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Away, Roll Away | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...zero-tolerance drug policy enforced with random testing. Even a crew bent on mayhem would have trouble scheduling it. The tows run 24 hours a day, and for the length of their 30-day shifts, the boatmen never touch dry land except to take a boat through a lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Away, Roll Away | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

Wilkinson's approach to this challenge is low-key. Unlike the motorboat-riding evangelists ("ambulance chasers," he calls them) who infest some locks, Wilkinson wants only to draw the men more closely into the Christian community to which most of them already belong. He has set up an 800 number for mariners in need of emergency pastoral care far from home, and in three months has logged 7,000 land miles in his white Ford Escort, recruiting shoreside ministers to respond. Boarding the Grainger at the Robert C. Byrd lock in West Virginia, he forgoes preaching in favor of hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Away, Roll Away | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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