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...counts for much, but not enough to turn away from those who are hopelessly overwhelmed by the demands of modern life. To permit those who would flounder even in the slowest lane to fend for themselves on very mean streets is an act not of social liberality but of neglect bordering on cruelty. In the name of a liberty that illness does not allow them to enjoy, we have condemned the homeless mentally ill to die with their rights on. --By Charles Krauthammer
Demel and his government adversaries are both struggling under a legacy of neglect for agriculture that began with Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s, when the commonwealth began steering its economy away from almost total dependence on sugar cane toward a more diversified industrial base in electronics and light manufacturing. Some observers believe that the island's agriculture is still wedded psychologically to sugar and is not truly interested in any other crop. Says Fernando Santiago, operator of a 600-acre farm in Santa Isabel: "Agriculture doesn't believe in vegetables...
Often the state must intervene in cases where abuse or neglect is suspected. Two-year-old Ana Marie seemed to be perpetually falling and hurting herself. "I didn't pay her enough attention," admits her mother Kim Adalid, 19, who also has a three-year-old son and expects a third child in January. After one of Ana Marie's mishaps, Kim took her daughter to a doctor, who quickly discovered that the child's arm was broken. Believing that the girl had been neglected (a charge that Kim vigorously denies), the doctor filed a report with the California courts...
...priority to building up Special Forces, increasing their budget from $441 million in 1982 to $1.2 billion this year, and the number of troops from 11,000 to nearly 15,000. At the very least, the Administration has rescued special operations from the post-Viet Nam era of neglect, which was so ignominiously exposed in the wreckage of Desert One during the failed Iranian hostage rescue mission...
Kazimierz, Krakow's 600-year-old Jewish quarter, used to be somewhere to avoid, especially at night. Damaged and depopulated during World War II, and further devastated under communist rule, the area of cobbled alleys, courtyards and galleried houses became shabby and forgotten, a neglect that preserved its historic character. But since Poland's return to democracy the neighborhood has been rejuvenated, and now boasts trendy restaurants and bars, an annual arts festival and the Center for Jewish Culture...