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...have helped double the number of inmates, which reached a record 1.1 million this year. To house and feed this army of incarcerated souls, states have poured $30 billion into construction in the past 10 years. This year they will spend $7 billion more, while the Federal Government will plow $2 billion into a system that is demanding 1,100 new beds every week. After Medicare, corrections is the fastest-growing item in most state budgets, eating into scarce funds earmarked for health, education, transportation and social services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gilded Cages | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...would be to use the 20% of the budget earmarked for defense to cancel the 30% of tax dollars that are earmarked for interest on the federal debt. I am talking about a global strike against the people to whom we owe the debt: Bomb 'em, strafe 'em, plow them under with tanks! If we could fight for oil, or whatever it was, we could surely fire a few rounds to lower the debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Them Eat Tax Forms | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...League regulations mandate, Harvard remained in the Garden State through Monday, waiting for the sun to come out. Players called teaching fellow and tutors from the hotel lobby asking for various extensions and a disgruntled coach Barry Haskell threatened to plow the parking lot and hold a practice...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Softball Team: Blazing Its Own Trail | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...plow through the literature of Afrocentrism is to enter a world of claims about technological innovation so absurd that they lie beyond satire, like those made for Soviet science in Stalin's time. Afrocentrists have at one time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell battery by observing electric eels in the Nile; and that late in the 1st millennium B.C., they took to flying around in gliders. (This news is based not on the discovery of an aircraft in an Egyptian tomb but on a silhouette wooden votive sculpture of the god Horus, a falcon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

While several other universities have postponed plans for large fundraising efforts, the New Hampshire college decided to plow ahead despite the sour economy...

Author: By Jessie K. Liu, | Title: Dartmouth Launches Fund Drive | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

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