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Sanchez took an eight-year leave from school to go home and work on his book. "I was living in a vacant house in the boondocks of southern Texas. I watched the people, got some ideas and noted them. My novel sprung out, almost automatically, from my notes,' Sanchez says...
...course, this realism works against this Godzilla-as-a-force-of-nature theme. He looks like a huge monster; he acts like a real monster. What else can we conclude but that he is a real monster? He is not some force that has sprung up to teach mankind a lesson (that man's buildings need more reinforced steel?) and then disappear when the message has been sent...
Sylvia Seegrist, 25, is a diagnosed schizophrenic with a history of violence that includes stabbing a mental health worker. Sent repeatedly to mental institutions in suburban Philadelphia, she kept getting sprung, thanks in part to various courts' strict interpretations of Pennsylvania's involuntary- commitment law. A year ago, she was committed for 20 days after trying to choke her mother but, against the recommendation of her psychiatrist, was released yet again. Last week Seegrist's mother Ruth tried to persuade her daughter to commit herself to a hospital for treatment. "She said I had no business telling her what...
...laserprinting companies have sprung up in California, but the Personal Processing partners believe that their 5 JFK Street business may be first on the East Coast to use laserprinters exclusively...
...concerns. Students are not reporting to the University; they are clearly dealing with their traumas through other channels. This is not inconsistent with the University's stated opinion that decentralized systems are better than bureaucratized formal ones. But one wonders what would have happened if students groups hadn't sprung up--at least three were begun in the last three years--or if they couldn't do a thorough enough job dealing with harassment complaints. And even if they are able fully to address all the complaints which arise, they are still equipped only to counsel, and not to make...