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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grove Village, Ill., ring softly every few minutes. Some of the youthful callers seem at first to be vulgar pranksters, out to make mischief with inane jokes and naughty language. But soon the voices on the line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director of the two hot lines, is a sense of "disconnectedness...
First in a trickle, now in an increasing stream, the state benches are using that prerogative. In New York, Connecticut, North Carolina and New Jersey, for example, the highest courts have refused to follow the U.S. Supreme Court in allowing prosecutors to use illegally seized evidence. The high court ruled in 1984 that such evidence was admissible so long as police obtained a warrant and were acting in "good faith." In California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, state supreme court judges have decided that their constitutions demand public financing of abortions for poor women, even though the U.S. Supreme Court...
M.D.C.'s Mizel was even more active in fund raising. Besides organizing the Denver luncheon for President Reagan, he directed a steady stream of dollars to state and national politicians, including Colorado Governor Roy Romer, a Democrat. Lawyer Brownstein, nicknamed Mr. Fixit, was a top Democratic rainmaker who arranged a Denver fund raiser in 1987 for Michigan Senator Don Riegle; Riegle is one of the Senators called the Keating Five for having received sizable contributions from the scandal-tarred head of Lincoln Savings. Of $37,000 raised for Riegle, $10,000 came from 16 people connected to Silverado and M.D.C...
What makes D.C. General so popular? The answer is simple and telling: it is the only hospital in the city that guarantees treatment regardless of ability to pay. In addition to a steady stream of desparately ill patients, D.C. General serves a regular group of homeless (who often just need a place to stay), mentally ill (some of whom must be restrained in a corner room) and drug abusers (who are known to attack the health staff...
...transition zone of thorn scrub from Madagascar and Mexico leads onto a Baja California desert biome. The stream, meanwhile, meanders to the saltwater marsh (transported in sections from the Florida Everglades) that gives onto the 10.6-meter-deep (35-ft.) ocean with its own coral reef and waves that can rise as high as 1.2 meters (4 ft.). Mangroves in the marsh are host to frogs, turtles and crabs, and the ocean includes 1,000 species of plants and animals...