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Next come the makings for amateur bombs: jars of gunpowder, lengths of pipe and a homemade blasting cap fashioned from fuse cord and a rifle shell. Given crank's capacity for rendering even casual users clinically psychotic (the transparent spiders weave webs inside the brain long after the meth has left one's system), the arsenal is probably unnecessary, real weapons amassed for a figmentary showdown...
...welfare reform in New Jersey. Five years ago, the state became a conservative favorite thanks to a tough new law ensuring that any woman who became pregnant while on welfare would not be given additional cash assistance for her new child. Advocates of the law, known as the family cap, called it a strike for personal responsibility, one that would force welfare parents to make the same family-planning decisions that working-class families do. Twenty-three other states followed suit...
...last week New Jersey learned of the measure's unforeseen consequences. According to a draft study prepared for the state health department by Rutgers University, the cap boosted New Jersey's abortion rate by an estimated 240 procedures a year. This "small but nontrivial" effect seemed to prove what antiabortion groups like the Catholic Conference have long warned: that some women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union...
Twenty-five years after he left Cambridge in cap and gown, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs James H. Rowe III '73 will announce his resignation next week and leave Harvard later this summer, sources confirmed yesterday...
Although Rubin was initially caught off-guard by the Mexican peso devaluation, he managed to string together a series of policy successes, according to Ullmann and Levy--most notably, the circumvention of the federal debt cap on government spending--which infuriated Republicans in Congress and led some to consider impeachment proceedings against...