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Take the example of Paradise, a farm that lies at the end of a dusty red road on the fertile plain south of Havana. A white bust of Lenin marks the entrance. By day Paradise is where Cuba's young dirty their hands with the real work of the socialist revolution, weeding, hoeing and harvesting in fields planted with banana trees. But by night it seems more of a '60s hippie commune, with parties in the "club," El Mosquito Picante (The Spicy Mosquito) and stolen kisses in the thatched hut out back...
...combined result of those trends is to make a travesty of what used to be called plain common sense. To be sure, charlatanism and dishonesty exist, and their victims deserve the law's protection. Yes, bigotry is inexcusable, and those who suffer by it, as well as others, are right to oppose it, backed by the full weight of law. Certainly job discrimination on the basis of sex, age or disability is not only morally unconscionable but illegal...
Throughout much of his life, there were warning signs that something was terribly wrong with Jeffrey Dahmer. His stepmother, Shari Dahmer, who was interviewed last week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer before clamming up to the press, said that "when he was young, he liked to use acid to scrape the meat off dead animals." At 18, Jeffrey witnessed the bitter divorce of his parents and lived with his mother in Bath Township, Ohio. But one day, said Shari Dahmer, his mother disappeared with his younger brother, leaving Jeffrey with nothing. Often Dahmer attempted to sedate himself with alcohol...
...implications for society are as plain as chalk marks on a blackboard: the relatively high cost of the original program -- $5,000 a year for each preschooler -- was actually a bargain. The results at Ypsilanti are echoing louder across the country, not only in facilities for the underprivileged but also in preschools everywhere. Twenty-seven states now fund prekindergarten facilities -- a huge jump from only seven in 1979. And the early-childhood boom goes on unabated. Some 1,700 nationally accredited public programs operate in the U.S.; an additional 4,300 are actively seeking accreditation...
From the cobblestoned streets of Bath, where angry Britons turned hoses on tour buses grinding through their neighborhoods last summer, to the sinking shores of Venice, where visitors on a summer Sunday often number 100,000, overcrowding, pollution and plain incivility have become unwelcome guests. Europeans in particular are realizing that tourism has got out of hand. This year alone more than 400 million people around the globe will travel abroad. By the year 2000, the number will be 650 million. And those figures do not include the millions who go sight-seeing in their own countries...