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There is no place to buy kosher spare ribs in Tucson, Arizona. Those who happen to be stranded in that far corner of the American Jewish Diaspora have to make the two-hour journey to Phoenix in order to partake of succulent barbecued beef. It was on the way home from one such trip that the illusion of love was demystified, and my young soul turned to black stone...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Endpaper: The Slot-Machine of Love | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...from sight. Cuomo attributes this to the expansion of shelters and other services; but increasingly, frustrated municipal governments are responding to the problem by cracking down on panhandling, sweeping homeless encampments out of parks and off streets and outlawing sleeping in public. At least 50 cities--from Chicago to Tucson, Ariz., to liberal Berkeley, Calif.--have antivagrancy laws on the books. Such measures only displace the homeless, however. New York's clampdown on vagrancy in Times Square, for instance, has merely pushed the encampments to the edges of the island of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Gone, but Forgotten? | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...hometown of Tucson, Ariz., three employees of the local Pizza Hut where shot to death for no apparent reason as they closed up the store. Their bodies were discovered by the fiancé of 20-year-old Melissa L. Monitz, one of the victims. He was so inconsolable he could hardly deliver a statement to the police...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Our Misery Doesn't Even Compare | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...system--and I'm 38. I've seen true, medically hyperactive kids. I wasn't one of them. What kind of society is it in which so many of us take the easiest option and drug our children with a substance we don't yet fully understand? THOMAS WHEELER Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...position he held from 1976 until he left Congress. In a real sense, he is also responsible for much of the face of modern Arizona. He shepherded through Congress the massive Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts from the Colorado River that provided the water that grew Tucson and Phoenix into the megalopolises they are today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morris Udall, 1922-1998 | 12/13/1998 | See Source »

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