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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...olds grew out of murder cases against Kevin Stanford of Kentucky and Heath Wilkins of Missouri. Stanford was 17 in 1981 when he held up a gas station, then sodomized a female attendant and shot her in the head at point-blank range. At 16 Wilkins repeatedly stabbed a woman owner of a convenience store in the neck and chest during a 1985 robbery. Justice Scalia emphasized that the constitutionality of sentencing 16- and 17- year-olds to death depends on the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." Applying that standard with chilly mathematical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bad News for Death Row | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...Karen, 42, began gambling at age eight, flipping baseball cards against garage doors. At 13, she shot craps with boys in the co-ed locker room of Ralston Junior High in Belmont, Calif. As a young married woman, she started going to Las Vegas and the poker tables at Gardena, Calif. "All of a sudden, it wasn't the money anymore," she says. "It was the action, the high." On one occasion, she told her young son to wait on a street corner after school, and she would pick him up at 2:30 p.m. for a dental appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling: Why Pick on Pete Rose? | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste time. You have to tell yourself that you're going to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennington, New Jersey | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Souther had aroused suspicions before his defection. Graduating from high school in Cumberland, Me., in 1975, he enlisted in the Navy and was trained as a photographer. Based in Italy at Sixth Fleet headquarters from 1979 to 1982, he married an Italian woman. They later separated, and in 1986 his estranged wife approached a Navy officer to report Souther as a spy. Souther had too much extra money, she claimed, and took Government documents home in violation of regulations. Authorities initially dismissed her accusations as an ex- wife's spite, but now suspect that Souther was recruited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The Odd Case of M. Orlov | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...last February, Judith Richards Hope, an attorney and consummate Republican party insider, became the first woman to join the Corporation. Does the Hope appointment signal change in the way Harvard runs itself...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Wisdom Dispensed From Mount Harvard's Peak | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

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