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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from kindergarten. Police charged that he was taken by a drifter named Kenneth Parnell, 48, who cropped the boy's blond hair and dyed it a darker color, then brought him home to his one-room cabin near Manchester. The boy's parents never received a ransom note. Parnell did not want money: he allegedly had stolen Timmy to provide a "brother" for Steve Stayner, whom authorities claim he had kidnaped seven years earlier as the boy walked home from school in Merced, in central California...
...most hair-raising detail is the revelation that there have actually been more than 50 attempts at nuclear blackmail in the U.S.; that figure is confirmed by Washington officials, although they note that all were hoaxes or extortion attempts and that no nuclear device was ever involved. The authors claim that one of the blackmail ploys, supposedly hatched by Palestinians, forced President Gerald Ford in the spring of 1974 to consider the evacuation of Boston. Officials in Boston and Washington admit that Ford did know of such a threat, but that they never could identify who was behind...
...concentrate on the Metamatic's real successes. The single drawn from the album, "Underpass," has steadily climbed the British charts, and it's easy to see why. Five steady synthesized beats enter over a shifting electronic hum, and then all hell breaks loose. A six-note phrase is repeated on two different scales at breakneck pace. Echoes and imitations emerge from behind the phrase's hidden contours. Amidst this turmoil, Foxx delivers the verses, in mechanized fashion with metallic overtones, and screams the chorus from a world away. "Underpass" beats recent Gary Numan products like "Complex" and "Cars" in every...
...Cambridge tenant. He is in his late twenties and has lived in a rent controlled apartment for the past five years. His salary is $17,500. Last Saturday he received a note in the mail stating that his apartment had been converted into a condominium. What should he do? Should he buy? Fight? Move...
...equals will continue to be stunted so long as these images of women, warped by sexual stereotypes, persist. Offensive ads like this one glamorize the subjugation. The Crimson article of Friday February twenty-third, by Steve Wolfe neglected to put this example in its proper context or to note the pernicious social ramifications of such advertisements...