Word: parkes
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...waste of money. But two new reports suggest that those politicians have it wrong. An investigative report published Oct. 24 in the Los Angeles Times documented the failure of California's three-strike law -- one of the nation's first and stiffest. The same day, the National Recreation and Park Association released a nationwide study of prevention programs, which offered compelling evidence that recreation and training can < contribute directly to declines in crime and juvenile-arrest rates. The message may be getting through. A small but growing number of mayors and judges, most of them Republicans, are breaking party ranks...
...half the year developing his attitude in the solitude of an 18th century farmhouse in the French Pyrenees, where he lives with his Estonian wife Aet. A couple of months a year at his other home in north London enables him to indulge his passion for the Queen's Park Rangers soccer team; the rest of the time he's on the road with the band...
...dead in her crib. Convinced that they might be accused of killing her, they disposed of the child's body in a wooded area 100 miles from home, then proceeded in their pickup truck to New York City, where they told police that their daughter had disappeared in Central Park. In the two-day search that followed, helicopters, bloodhounds and scuba divers scoured the park and its waterways until the couple broke down and confessed. They had thought it would be enough to say that Manhattan itself had opened its jaws and swallowed their daughter. Everyone knows the profile...
...White House security procedures would be incorporated into a study already under way. It follows September's safety scare in which a light plane crash-landed on the White House grounds and slid into the wall below the President's bedroom, killing only the depressed pilot. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, which maintains the grounds and building, is working on a long-range plan for White House preservation, tourism and work space. The White House is the world's power stage, and a new set is needed...
True enough. Being busily at work on the premises -- and visible -- is an ingredient of leadership. In fact, the Park Service has a contingency plan for disaster, natural and otherwise, that would rush in work crews and get the White House functioning again as soon as possible so the President could be seen by the public to be back on duty in the old familiar place. "There is no symbol as powerful," says a planner...