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...rest of the first act proceeds in a similar plot-free fashion. A song is sung by a member of the group followed by a short skit centered around a specific parable ("Love thy neighbor," "Judge not" etc.). The band begins playing and the parable is put to music. The actors rotate in leading the songs and skits with the Jesus stand-in always dictating the ultimate lesson...
...terrorism in Cairo, called the shootings "a mad and evil act", mirroring the reactions of parents and officials in the quiet Scottish town. The gunman, Thomas Hamilton was the 43-year-old administrator of a boys athletic club and was described as a gun enthusiast and a loner. A neighbor told the AP that Hamilton often took young boys on holiday to Loch Lomond.Liggett Group Breaks Ranks, Settles Suit
...institutions like women's shelters and schools as "high risk" offenders. New York's law is based on a more extreme New Jersey statute, commonly known as Megan's Law. This law was enacted after a 7-year-old girl named Megan Kanka was raped and killed by a neighbor who, unbeknownst to the community, was twice convicted for sex offenses. These new laws, some of which are being challenged in states including New Jersey, bring to the fore a number of troubling questions about the role of individual rights in our country's legal and moral code...
...effectiveness will be battled out in courtrooms and newspapers across the country, the more important issue is the loss of faith in our society and in its institutions that is the driving force behind the new laws. We are so frightened of the unknown dangers lurking in our neighbor's--and our own--homes that we are willing to reject the founding belief in an individual's privacy in our quest for the ever-elusive safety...
...manage. The next project in the Discovery series is the Mars Pathfinder, scheduled for launch next December, which will land on the Red Planet and send a robot rover off to explore. Then comes Lunar Prospector in 1997, designed to chart the mineral composition of Earth's nearest neighbor, and after that a mission to bring a chunk of comet back to Earth, slated for 1999. Each is supposed to cost a few hundred million dollars at most, and thanks to NEAR that goal, considered highly improbable when it was first proposed five years ago, doesn't seem so absurd...