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...typical night finds 230 to 250 inmates, most of them sleeping on mattresses on the floor, in the county's 89-bed jail on Tazewell's Main Street. Last year the county spent $132,000 to send its overflow of inmates to other jails. Nearly 1,100 people are on probation for felony convictions in Tazewell. Probation officers handle an average of 120 offenders each; a decade ago the average was 60. Ten years ago, grand juries that indicted two dozen people were considered especially zealous. Now grand juries indict 120 people at a time, mostly Tazewell residents, says...
...known, ensnaring even radio impresario Rush Limbaugh in a scandal that sent him into rehab. Around the nation, the statistics tell the story. A Jan. 21, 2005, report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that the number of people who had used oxycodone, the main ingredient in OxyContin, for nonmedical reasons jumped from 11.8 million in 2002 to 13.7 million in 2003. The increase happened even though OxyContin's maker stopped distributing its strongest pill, the 160-mg tablet, in 2001 and more states began prescription-monitoring programs to detect abusers who go from doctor...
...fight began on her return to Morgantown, W.Va., from a pilgrimage to Mecca. "I experienced full and unfettered access to the holy mosque in Mecca," she says. Back in Morgantown, she decided to defy a ban that forbade women to use the front entrance and pray in the main hall with the men. Mosque leaders are considering banishing her for such disruptive behavior, but she feels she's making progress. She prays in the main hall now and says, "They just pretend I'm not there...
...Lover is still banned in India? This only gives a leg up to the crazy prudes who think that's a good idea." Tehelka boss Tarun Tejpal knows how aggressive journalism can boomerang. After publishing a report on alleged corruption in arms sales under the previous government, his main investor was jailed, advertisers were warned off, and staff so tied up in court cases that Tehelka?which means "sensation" in Hindi?collapsed. Back at the helm of a reborn Tehelka weekly, however, Tejpal thinks that even his experience won't stop India's brash new journalism. "Ethics are changing again...
...everyone these days seems to be groping for a way to get rich off India. Foreign institutional investors poured $8.5 billion into Indian equities in 2004 and $2.6 billion so far this year, up from $750 million in 2002. Awash in cash from overseas, the Sensex?India's main stock index?has doubled in two years, hitting an all-time high in March. As Udwadia puts it, "astute foreign investors" now realize that India's rise is "a unique opportunity." He's right, of course. On a recent visit to Bombay, I quickly found myself as intoxicated as everyone around...