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...past.) Calling for "tough-love" solutions, Hamill offers a startling proposal: quarantine male street people on military bases and compel them to accept medical treatment. "The men would be treated as menaces to the public health, not as criminals," he writes. Yet under his prescription those who resist such attentions "would be charged with crimes of violence and turned over to the criminal-justice system...
...giving the Indian perspective on American history, the films cannot resist a few cheap shots. When Iroquois representatives visit the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, they get warm praise from Benjamin Franklin. "Well done, Franklin," a colleague confides later. "You do know your savages." (Franklin's smug reply: "Thank you.") Still, these films show that TV history can do more than just confirm our prejudices and indulge our nostalgia (as in the recent orgy of Kennedy retrospectives). It can actually tell us something...
Invulnerable to AIDS: Some Kenyan prostitutes resist...
...book The Culture of Disbelief. Carter claims that the leaders of American culture increasingly treat religious faith as a somewhat embarrassing or purely private affair that should be allowed to have no impact on society -- unlike all other modes of thinking. The newly arriving faiths can be expected to resist that sort of limitation as they reinvigorate America's spiritual marketplace...
What these folks have in common is an insatiable hunger for information, even when such information is not meant for them. A few are the malicious kind, always wanting to make victims of whomever comes across their adventurous paths. Most probably are just too curious to resist the temptation of exploring other people's electronic mailbox...