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...shootings in New York and California as well as "racial profiling" by New Jersey state troopers. The question is whether law enforcement, amid its extraordinary success in pushing the crime rate down, is showing too little regard for individual rights--especially those of blacks and Hispanics, who are most often targets of alleged misconduct. "We cannot have the kind of country we want if people are afraid of those folks who are trying to protect them," President Clinton said during his press conference last Friday, after promising to seek $40 million from Congress for improved police training and recruitment...
...search, there was no sign of a third body or of suspects. The FBI noted, however, that only someone from the area would probably be familiar with the location where the car was found, off the narrow logging roads and at a spot deep in the woods, where locals often dump trash. "We want resolution, and this brings us a step forward--this has been a fight," said Francis Carrington, Sund's father and head of Carrington Co., a Eureka-based real estate firm. The family had offered more than $300,000 reward for anyone with information connected...
HYDROELECTRIC DAMS Dams hurt baby fish by slowing down water, which raises its temperature and increases the time it takes the young to get to the ocean. Others are killed by hydroelectric turbines before they can even start downstream. Adult fish swimming upstream often fail to make it over the dam, as staircase-like "fish ladders" prove only partly effective. Some dams must be redesigned; others should be removed...
...Harvard so much more," says Alexandra V. Schmitz '00, who is currently in Paris for the semester. "It is nice to take a break from everything because I know that I will get back to enjoy my senior year and take advantage of all of the things that we often take for granted at Harvard...
...seems the academic ball and chain was often unshackled on foreign shores...