Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, nearly a year longer than those convicted of sexual abuse.) Several new books, including Michael Massing's The Fix, point out that the tough-on-drugs policies of the past 15 years haven't had much impact on the heart of the drug problem, abuse by long-term urban addicts. Even the usually hard-line drug czar Barry McCaffrey has written that "we can't incarcerate our way out of the drug problem." He has urged Congress to reduce mandatory minimums for crack, which are currently 100 times as heavy as those for powdered coke and impact most...
...group members, their height, their weight, their hair color, their personalities onstage and off. Who will be the prankster, like 'N Sync's Chris Patrick? Who will be the lead sex symbol, like Backstreet's Nick Carter? Who can make a credible dangerous guy, the one who dresses more "urban" and maybe even has tattoos...
...that no domesticated animal is more intelligent than its wild, undomesticated ancestor. Compare a domesticated dog with a wolf or a coyote, and the tame dog will come up short. Intelligence evolves in response to heavy selective pressures in the struggle for survival. The lean, mean environment of the urban poor, not the "pop genetics" of the affluent suburbs, is already producing some of our next generation's geniuses. JOHN W. HOOPES Lawrence, Kans...
...what a remarkable kid he was, one has to understand the community around him. When gang leaders commandeered swaths of Bridgeport and other cities in the early 1990s, the never easy task of finding witnesses became all but impossible. A 1996 federal study found that law officers in eight urban areas reported that violent acts of witness intimidation "occur on a daily or weekly basis." In Los Angeles a stunning 1,000 homicides in the first half of the decade went unsolved because no one stepped forward. At B.J.'s funeral last week, a family friend made the point without...
DIED. WILLIAM H. WHYTE, 81, optimistic social thinker and urban planner; in New York City. Whyte's opus on corporate America, The Organization Man (1956), warned against conformity and its accompanying spiritlessness. After leaving his longtime post as an editor of FORTUNE magazine, Whyte studied how humans and cities could best complement each other. One of his ideas--to beautify crime-friendly urban spots in order to attract law-abiding citizens--helped inspire the makeover of New York City's Bryant Park...