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...most ambitious efforts to reconstruct family life is at Logos School, a private academy outside St. Louis that was founded two decades ago for troubled teens. Strict rules governing both school and extracurricular life are laid out for parents in a 158-page manual. Families are required to have dinner together every night, and parents are expected to keep their children out of establishments or events, say local hangouts or rock concerts, where drugs are known to be sold. Parents must also impose punishments when curfews and other rules are broken. Says Lynn, whose daughter Sara enrolled at Logos...
...highly emotional controversy over an individual's right to die, the highest court in the land has taken a strict stand. Last June the U.S. Supreme Court declared that government has a legitimate interest in preserving life without regard to its quality. But citizens of Florida can largely ignore that ruling. Three weeks ago, that state's supreme court invoked the "privacy" provision of the Florida constitution to say the state should generally stay out of decisions to remove the feeding tubes of incompetent and incurable patients...
California has adopted strict building codes to limit earthquake damage, but no other area is so well prepared. If hit by large shocks, the unreinforced highways and bridges of the Midwest and East could collapse. Solid houses of brick and stone might as well be made of playing cards. "The infrastructure in this part of the country has never been tested by a major quake," says Arch Johnston of the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at Memphis State University. Fortunately, when the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 occurred, the New Madrid region was too sparsely populated to suffer significant...
...Penn official said that the recentelevation of campus security officers to thestature of an official "police force" has helpedenforce the school's already strict drinkingregulations...
Despite the strict new policy on trademarks,Struss said the University has not had muchtrouble when it has confronted manufacturersviolating the trademark rules...