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...cruelty to juveniles. But finding properly trained people to work in Louisiana's prisons is tough. The state's public corrections officers, who receive starting salaries just below $15,000, are the lowest paid in America. Recruiting is even harder in the private sector, where benefits tend to be less generous across the nation. Still, Wackenhut Corrections president Wayne Calabrese insists, "we had more staff to inmates than the state facilities themselves were required to have...
...club near Wall Street. You climb three flights of stairs to find the stage, where Shawn (one of three actors) and director Andre Gregory greet you; after an intermission (snacks provided) you climb another flight for the second act. This too-New-York-for-words theater happening is actually less pretentious than one might fear, and the play--a series of monologues set in a totalitarian society where intellectuals have fallen victim to the masses--nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary. Maybe someday the masses will...
Finally, those wild and crazy scientists at IBM have created the Microdrive ($499, available this fall), a 1-GB hard drive squeezed down to the size of a quarter. It weighs less than an ounce--you could almost mistake it for an after-dinner mint. Big whoop, you say? Slot one of these babies into an MP3 player, and you've got storage space for about 20 hours' worth of music. The Backstreet Boys never sounded so good...
...kids per teacher) and that spending, at about $8,000 per pupil, rivals that of some of Wellston's more affluent neighboring districts. But my father has become convinced that all these efforts are never going to be enough. He believes what students in Wellston need is nothing less than a "fortress," a boarding "academy" that can insulate them from their own community. He's got it all mapped out: during the day about 200 students would attend Wellston's schools, but in the evening they would be tutored in reading, writing and math before going on to learn about...
...good about coming to the meetings, he's very good about having us to the White House and having the Cabinet members there," sniped New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. "That's all very nice, but what we wanted is more action and less of the big government things." Added Virginia's Gov. James Gilmore, another oft-mentioned veep candidate: "His Environmental Protection Agency has been aggressive to the point of really being very, very offensive, almost...