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Silberman goes on to puncture the rightist dogma of severe punishment and electrocution enthusiasm. Certainty of punishment, not severity, deters crime; overcrowded, bestially violent American prisons pile punishment on to no recognizable end, and the animals they create of men make prison government impossible. "The fatal flaw in the traditional...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

No evidence exists that longer prison terms or fixed mandatory sentences will deter crime, says Silberman. The real problem with the court system is not that it works badly but that it appears to work badly. Image is of no small importance. Making people believe that the law works ?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: As American as Jesse James | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

NS110 is severely overcrowded and suffers from a shortage of computer terminals sufficient to handle the swarms of would-be programmers and gut-seekers. In the meantme, undergraduate T.F.'s will battle the odds and try to teach students the basics of computer programming.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduates Teach Sections In Nat Sci 110 | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

While all of this is good news to the U.S. private-aircraft industry, it is putting increasing pressure on the nation's overcrowded airports. Nowhere is this more true than in California, which now has 113,000 certified pilots. Van Nuys airport, the busiest general aviation field in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What's Up In Our Crowded Skies | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Thus, in order to deprive the National Liberation Front of its rural base, Huntington is arguing that the U.S. must make the Vietnamese countryside uninhabitable by reducing it to embers and rubble. "Urbanization and modernization" meant napalm and fragmentation bombs, plague-ridden, overcrowded cities, and the slaughter of hundreds of...

Author: By Jeff Mayersohn and Allan Mui, S | Title: A Return to Protest | 9/26/1978 | See Source »

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