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...seen in a newspaper," he wrote. "...that man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them: inasmuch as he knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors." This was no run-of-the-mill vice president, but Thomas Jefferson, better known and more often remembered for his stated preference for newspapers without government over government without newspapers...
Though revisions of the library have been in the rumor-mill for many weeks, the first official indication that changes would be made came March 13 when George Grant, project director for C.E. Maguire's environmental impact study of the library, told the City Council he was still awaiting construction plans...
Court practices have changed radically. Drunks are no longer run through the mill at a one-a-minute rate but are given a choice between standing trial with a jail term possible and going to a detoxification center. This program has eliminated about 75% of alcoholic recidivism. No longer are suspects held as long as three days for investigation; each afternoon the police must give a precinct-by-precinct report on the disposition of suspects. Arraignments now usually come within 24 hours, a trial date is set within five or six days, and trial begins in 60 to 90 days...
...town of Manchester might be called the cradle of the Industrial Revolution were it not that more than half the working-class children born there a century ago died before the age of five. Under Manchester's pall of smoke, pale families shuffled away their lives between cotton mill and hovel. Bad air, bad food, bad laws, monotony and danger were the workers' common lot. The din of machinery was a ceaseless taunt that whatever skill remained in their hands was irrelevant...
...food is delivered to the pens by trucks, which are routed by computer. When an empty truck pulls up to Farr's $1 million feed mill, the woman operator perched in a control center (so well sealed that the air smells of ozone instead of the all-pervasive manure) spots the truck's number and identifies the feeding pen it is delivering to. She inserts a punch card carrying dietary instructions for the animals in that pen into the computer, which automatically dispenses the proper proportions of food into the truck. The truck then drives slowly along...