Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the recalled lot contained 93,400 bottles containing 50 capsules each and that they had been distributed east of the Mississippi as well as in North Dakota. South Dakota, Nebraska and in part of Wyoming. The expatiation date was April...
...high school run so deep that no external meddling will mend them. Admission-related measures have no effect on schools whose primary purpose is not to prepare students for college. Yet they're in the worst trouble of all, struggling fiercely just to comply with basic competency requirements. A Mississippi editor wrote in late July that out-of-state recruiters, shifting through the state's high-school graduates for possible jobs, couldn't find enough trainable people to meet their needs...
Here and there, modest attempts are being made. Mississippi, for example, runs five "restitution centers," small and relatively cheap houses where convicted thieves must stay at night but leave during the day to work off their debts to victims. A special task force last winter proposed to the legislature that some first offenders be sentenced to perform community service, and that a sentencing standards commission be established. The measures were defeated, even formally condemned by 23 senators. Says Corrections Commissioner Thigpen: "During the debate all we heard was that we were 'soft on crime' and 'the people back home want...
Longer punishment means more prison crowding. Between January and July, Mississippi's prison population grew at an annual pace of 44%. "If we continue to incarcerate at the same rate," says Morris Thigpen, Mississippi commissioner of corrections, "we will be constantly building new prisons. I don't think we can." Thigpen's prescription is repeated in every state, by hundreds of prison officials, judges and scholars. "We have got to look at prison space," Thigpen says, "as a scarce commodity to be used sparingly." The alternative to a Herculean (not to say Sisyphean) prison-construction jag, agrees Carlson...
Crotti's barnyard brainstorm has already undergone tests at a 31,500-gal. spill in the Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick...