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...They're killing each other, and it's getting worse all the time. Their lives are so desolate, they have so little hope, and they are taking it out on people like themselves. Their parents, some of them, are on crack or other drugs. They have nothing you would recognize as family life, too little food, no future. Many of them are abused children. Nobody cares about them. They are afraid to walk to the store alone, or to go to their friend's house without protection...
...described Rider as a 26-year-old, college-educated member of the Bloods who got out. He made a great deal of money dealing crack, invested it and now lives very well with his family in a nice neighborhood. He doesn't deal anymore. To most people, Rider appears to be a successful investor. He wears Armani suits, collects classic cars, owns a 40-ft. powerboat. He drives a four-by-four but keeps an Uzi stashed in the back, just in case...
...year contract with scientists at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy to do research on thermonuclear fusion, a potentially limitless energy source that American physicists have been struggling with for decades. Both deals are tremendous bargains for the U.S. Sun is paying Babayan's 50 or so crack computer scientists just a few hundred dollars a year apiece. And the entire 116-member Kurchatov team is being hired for $90,000 a year -- roughly the salary of one high-level U.S. physicist...
...Robinson works to crack the case, director Billy Wilder builds a "double suspense." Wilder transforms a simple plot into a nail-biting thriller. The 1973 remake of Double Indemnity, with a new cast, cannot be compared to the classic original. Neither can Body Heat, a more recent retelling of the story...
...crack down on the growing racket, Social Security officials are beginning to keep closer tabs on employees whose personal computer codes enable them to access information. "This is something that was basically unchecked," explains an agency official in Atlanta. "If a clerk's job requires her to access one or two names a month and she's doing 100, someone ought to go down there and find...