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...said some USX plants may never reopen. And strike benefits do not replace salaries. Steelworker Jeff Smith, who supports a family of four, will draw $60 a week from his Gary local, just 15% of his usual salary of $400. Says he: "There've been good times at the mill in the past. We'll just have to hope for better times up the road." For many steelworkers, whose numbers have already declined from 700,000 in 1978 to 140,000 today as the industry has shrunk, those times may prove to be painfully beyond reach...
Perhaps the most persuasive case against government intrusion into most areas of private morality was made by John Stuart Mill in his 1859 essay, On Liberty: "The only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant . . . Over himself, over his own mind and body, the individual is sovereign." The framers of the U.S. Constitution seem to have had similar views in mind when they declared in the Ninth Amendment that "the enumeration...
...city zoo ever boasted rides like the Congo River Rapids, the Stanleyville Falls flume or the vertigo-inducing Scorpion--all to be found at Busch Gardens in Tampa. Early Christians never found accommodations as plush as the ones at the "21st century Christian campground" of Heritage USA near Fort Mill, S.C. As for the twin fountainheads of theme parks--Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and the gigantic Walt Disney World outside Orlando--they offer nothing less than a dream of America as it once or never was: a homogenized, turn-of-the-century village propelled into the future by space...
Hank Williams Jr.'s rendition of the red-neck anthem If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Dixie (Then I Don't Want to Go) should be spitting out of your car radio as you make the more than 150-mile drive from Pigeon Forge to Fort Mill, S.C. It will put you in the mood for Heritage USA, Televangelist Jim Bakker's hotel and convention complex that attracts 5 million of the faithful each year. Cynics call the place Six Flags over Jesus, but you will be disappointed if you come expecting a Holy Roller coaster or a guided...
...mill around, joking and sparring with our prop swords. Patrick discusses the cue with the lighting designer and finally tells us where to start. We run our scene, pausing for a few more cues, and return to the green room...