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...York City last week announced that it would support a needle-exchange effort, two years after Mayor David Dinkins halted such a program. The mayor of Washington also called last week for needle exchange for addicts, as well as the distribution of free condoms in city schools and jails. Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut will probably soon take the even more dramatic step of decriminalizing the possession of hypodermics. Movements are under way in New Jersey, California and Massachusetts to remove legal barriers and begin officially sanctioned needle programs. Even in the U.S. Congress, Charles Rangel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting The Point In New Haven | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...Haskell, an adolescent who stays behind in Rhode Island when his mother and sister move to L.A., narrates the story. The novel unfolds when, some years later, Sam visits them for the first time since their departure from Rhode Island. To him, his manic depressive mother--who likes to call herself "Jewel"--and his rebellious younger sister, Ginny, live in a turbulent household on Sun Dial Street. Their lives are filled with chaos and animosity...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: Characters, Writing Style Make Leimbach's New Book Memorable: | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

Eschewing his gubernatorial record and instead running on a platform of environmentalism and space exploration (hence the nickname "Moonbeam"), Brown presented himself as the alternative to Carter and won five late primaries--Maryland, New Jersey, Nevada, Rhode Island and California...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Many Lives of Jerry Brown | 4/18/1992 | See Source »

...German government paid DM 400,000 (about $250,000) in 1990 to hire dowsers to scan federal offices and hospitals so that desks and beds could be relocated out of the path of the deadly E rays that authorities have accepted as real. Our own Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, has urged government funding for supernatural research, fearful that Russian scientists might be ahead of the U.S. in paranormal matters. Until recently, Pell retained a special assistant with top-secret security clearance who devoted himself solely to such research, for a paycheck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Stamp Out Absurd Beliefs | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...didn't. It's a Complex World is an independent feature from Providence, Rhode Island. By Hollywood standards, the movie defies description. Maybe that's why the preview is so bizarre...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Hedonism At the Heartbreak Hotel | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

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