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...fall in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, and Jacob Stoltzfoos is working his field much the way his forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back...
After last week's killings, Chris Foote's family called for the Arizona legislature to rein in bounty hunters. A bill imposing licensing requirements and background checks for the profession is expected next session. Last year a Kansas City judge sentenced a bounty hunter to six months in jail for searching a private home after the occupant produced an ID showing he was not the man wanted. Texas requires bounty hunters to obtain arrest warrants and be accompanied by peace officers, security officers or licensed private investigators. Curbs have not come easily. Says Gene Newman, president of the Professional Bail...
...Arafat may be useless in the eyes of both Israelis and Palestinians, but the U.S. still believes "he's the best show in town," TIME's Dean Fischer reports. "Placed next to alternatives like Hamas, he looks very good indeed." The way Israel sees it, if Arafat can't rein in militants on Palestinian territory, its troops are more than willing to do it for him. And while Palestinian officials blast that threat as paramount to a "declaration of war," the wobbly Arafat government is no shape to put up much of a fight. Outraged by Hamas violence as well...
Dunn doctors boast that they are not tied to the controversial drug "formularies" used in managed-care to rein in doctors' drug choices. Cardiologist Ganapathy Ramanathan says he regularly prescribes a very expensive heart-attack drug called TPA, at thousands of dollars a dose, rather than the drug streptokinase, which is available for a fraction of the cost but has been found less effective in some studies. "I'm sure the hospital has lost a lot of money on many of my patients, but they've never told me about it," he says. Dunn contends it is more willing...
...actors give a feel of realism to their characters and yet they are also archetypes projected from Bobby's perception of reality. Guastaferro as buddy Joey does well to rein in his character as an outrageous, obnoxious and prejudiced Jew and gets quite a few guffaws about his quixotic dreams of living in Europe. Brooke Adams as Jolly, the disgusted sister, expresses her character's frustrations about being unloved and neglected as a child very convincingly. Of all the actors, her character is the one who seems most like a neurotic person one might meet on the street. Jack Willis...