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"The normative mode for treating kids is to lock them up--institutionalize them in some Oliver Twist-esque barn," Calhoun says, referring to the old training schools. He said that Massachusetts leads the country in the use of the more humane, community-based facilities like half-way houses.

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Substituting minibikes for hot cars | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice sickly season just at this time ... and, in the course of a few weeks, Ol- iver acquired a great deal of experience.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the 'Bug Boys' | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Died. Oliver F. (Ollie) Atkins, 60, personal photographer to the President during Richard Nixon's White House years; of cancer; in Washington, Va. A longtime Saturday Evening Post staffer, Atkins traveled around the world with Nixon to record his presidency. But his most memorable photo was taken on Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1977 | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

The author's prose style is some times clouded by a purple hue, but his in sights are as clear as those in Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Philosopher's Stone | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Of course, not all the meals are horrendous, but then again, not everyone can survive on a diet that even Oliver Twist would find measly. Take last week, for instance:

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Food For Thought, Not Consumption | 1/19/1977 | See Source »

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