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...entire New York Mets roster), 19th century labor relations and a defrocked commissioner (the job has been vacant since Fay Vincent was forced out a year ago), perhaps this latest wild-card wackiness will prove to be little more than an unfortunate rain delay. But don't wait till next year; this may be our last and best September...
Liberals did find some things to cheer, however, such as the more holistic approach to drug offenders. "If you have mandatory drug treatment in the prisons, you can get a lot done," says New York Congressman Charles Schumer. "You say to criminals, 'You're not getting out of jail till you're drug- free.' " Others applauded the $100 million in grants to schools to develop anticrime programs, and the idea of sending young, first-time offenders to boot camps, where they get heavy discipline and a second chance, rather than sending them to jail for their graduate training in criminal...
...Northwest's old growth is still uncut, and much of this is in patches too small to be ecologically self-sustaining. In 15 years or so, enough second-growth timber will have reached marketable size to allow some logging towns to limp along. But to bridge the years till then, virtually all the old growth not in national parks would have...
...also robbed the town of all vitality. In a community already knocked flat by poverty, the returnees have come to make up a separate and uniquely destitute class, devoid of land, possessions and hope. Having sold everything but what they could carry, they own nothing. Farmers can no longer till because someone else has title to their land. Fishermen watch as canoes they once owned are paddled away from shore by someone else...
...Hooking up with your best friend's girl-friend," begins a list of Edge Man activities beside the subscription order form. "Getting drunk on a Wednesday afternoon... Ditching work to watch the game with your buds. Playing beer pong 'till dawn." This isn't a to-do list--it's a fantasy. Inside Edge writers will play out their fantasies in magazine copy, but not in real life. They'll throw away a question or two, but they'll never blow their...