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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...juvenile offenders in a Miami suburb. Staff members recall Knighton as hostile and angry at first; later he began to flourish under the supervision of caring adults. "Anthony thought it was heaven," says superintendent Jounice Morris. "It was his first glimpse of stability." Morris, who gave him the nickname "Peanut," recalls that Knighton had the reading ability of a nine-year-old. She says his sister visited him only once during the months he spent at the halfway house; no other relative appeared. "It was clear he'd been passed around from pillar to post, sharing apartments with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Without Pity | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...looked harmless enough: just another small asteroid, shaped so exactly like a peanut that the resemblance was almost comical. A few large impact craters, and hundreds of tiny ones, were scattered at random over its charcoal-gray surface. There were no visual clues to give any sense of scale, but Singh knew its dimensions by heart: 1,295 m maximum length, 456 m minimum width. Kali would fit easily into many city parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hammer Of God | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...sense, this apartment is the nicest one I will have for many, many years," says Zikherman as she surveyed the refrigerator she stocked with hot dogs, yogurt, peanut butter and pita bread. "But it's also a pain in the neck and I'd much rather be in the Yard...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is 29 Garden Street Paradise Found? Or Paradise Lost? | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...issue we've been pushing -- trust. Clinton could have come clean months ago, or even last week. Every day that he doesn't, we'll do what Bob Kerrey predicted we'd do: we'll take Clinton's draft record and open it and him like a soft-shelled peanut. It's that simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest:The Lies of George and Bill | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...reprising TV's most overworked black stereotype) who can't find dates for Saturday night. Alison (Courtney Thorne-Smith) is a stupendously naive receptionist who reluctantly takes in a male roommate, then is shocked to find that he wants to bring girls back to the apartment and share the peanut butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of The Androids | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

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