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Sneakers, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, gang member, comes by his nickname honestly. "It's 'cause I'm so fast," he explains. "Real fast." Especially after he snatches a purse. Or burglarizes a home. Or pulls a trigger. Sometimes, though, Sneakers isn't quite fast enough. He has already served three years for two robberies. Now 21, Sneakers is a two-time loser on the prowl in a three-strike state. But he's not worried that a third felony could put him away for life. "The law don't make no difference to me because I ain't gonna get caught...
...billion people. By the same year, an increasingly industrialized China will need to purchase 200 million tons of grain abroad for its 1.6 billion people, as much as is now exported by all the world's countries. The result will be a spike in food prices that will trigger "wholesale social disintegration" in Africa, Latin America and other poor regions. "China's scarcity will become the world's scarcity," Brown predicts...
...rally of these proportions would be a unique event at Harvard, and may trigger an increase in school spirit as a whole, council members agreed...
American military planners noted that there were indeed advantages in focusing on the Republican Guard rather than trying to enforce a complete demilitarized zone. A hair-trigger exclusion zone, where every tank and artillery piece that sneaks in constitutes a violation, would allow Saddam to keep U.S. troops busy with cat-and-mouse games or, worse, force them to turn a blind eye. Furthermore, creating a military vacuum below the 32nd parallel could lead to a collapse of Baghdad's authority in the territory and possibly invite an incursion by Iran -- an even less appetizing prospect...
...Pentagon is worried that Aristide's return could cause problems beyond his personal security. Officials fear the Haitian President may resume making the fiery speeches that ignited his mass movement, the Lavalas, or flash flood, in the past. Such rhetoric might, even unintentionally, trigger a popular uprising against the military and the country's rich elite -- a vengeful burst of mob violence that could put the U.S. Army in the middle and in danger...