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...Another tool for which lawmakers are reaching to control crime before it happens is teen curfews. Two dozen cities have adopted them, many in the past year. This month Florida's attorney general will push the legislature for a statewide curfew aimed at everyone younger than 18. The city of Tampa got a jump on that last week when it opted for an 11 p.m. curfew for youths 16 or younger, with an extension to midnight on weekends. It is the parents who get punished -- with a warning, the first time their kids are caught. For subsequent offenses, the penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Lock 'Em Up!?And Throw Away the Key | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...leadership of the Civil War. Because the book dose not discuss much of the military and political developments that did not involve Longstreet of his armies, it requires at least a basic prior knowledge of the broader context. But the balance and insight it provides make it an important tool for understanding one of the great unknowns of American history...

Author: By Justin P. Obrien, | Title: Confederate General Gets Long Overdue Vindication | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...consider. West makes plain that the struggle for equality and respect in the New World involves us all. In his first easy he states that all concerned individuals must be willing to "put bodies and lives on the line." Though he maintains that "intellectual weaponry" is an extremely effective tool for advancement, he recognizes that this struggle has been and still needs to be physical as Well. Violence is certainly not on his agenda, but he does believe "that one never rules out any from of struggle when one is struggling for such precious things as freedom and dignity...

Author: By Kaiama L. Glover, | Title: Western Values | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) was billed by physicists as their giant microscope to observe the fundamental particles of matter, a tool that would lead to the greatest progress in physics since quantum mechanics...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Supercollider's Cancellation Changes Physicists' Lives | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...decades of painful silence. In 1939 Roth married Muriel Parker, a composer and pianist, a union that would last 51 years until her death in 1990. The couple had two sons, and Roth did what he could to support a family. During World War II, he worked as a tool- and gaugemaker. After moving to Maine in 1946, he held a variety of jobs, including hospital psychiatric attendant, roadside maple-syrup vendor and waterfowl farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending a 60-Year Silence | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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