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...prohibited from harming other members of society, wasting taxpayer money to house drug offenders at the average annual rate of $23,876 per inmate siphons money from education, employment, and rehabilitation program budgets that target the causes of drug addiction and crime. This is especially true within crime-ridden inner cities. Inner-city dwellers and minorities are disproportionately victimized by the fundamentally flawed corrections system. The rate of incarceration for adult black males is one in 15—the rate for black men aged 20-34 is a staggering one in nine. Average prison sentences for crack cocaine...
...jump.Following Saturday’s play, the women had 17.5 points and the men had only three points.Yesterday’s track-heavy schedule provided more of a surge for the squad’s point totals.In addition to Christensen’s high jump performance, an injury-ridden junior Dara Wilson offered a third-best finish in the 60m Hurdles with an ECAC qualifying time of 8.84.And despite battling walking pneumonia recently, senior Danielle Mirabal placed fourth in the 60m dash with a 7.77 finish.“Our team’s resiliency this weekend, their ability...
...post-war Italy used the Marshall Plan's funds to exploit its creative talent to the full. Iconic designs include the Cisitalia 202 Gran Sport, a 1947 automobile whose svelte curves were emblematic of the epoch's streamlined aesthetic; and Piaggia's Vespa 150 GS, similar to the one ridden by Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 film Roman Holiday. Speed also played its part in the golden age of Italian cinema; witness the Lancia Spider that homegrown idol Vittorio Gassman drove in Il Sorpasso, a 1962 road movie dripping with dolce vita style...
There's a dark side to love poetry: I envision a Goth, angst-ridden, Bell Jar-clutching user who must be behind searches like "dark love poems," and "heartbreaking love poems." And there's also a profoundly lazy side: With a significant number of "short love poems" searches, it seems that many of us not only want to lift pre-written sentiments, but we'd prefer not having to spend a lot of time doing...
...have been no reports of protests, but consumers are testy. On Jan. 29, Zhang Liying, a 36-year-old mother of one, shuffled into the supermarket near her apartment outside Shanghai, knocked snow off of her boots and started shopping for dinner. Bundled up against bitter temperatures, she had ridden her scooter to the store and was "frozen now," she said. But when Zhang got to the vegetable section, you could practically see the steam coming from her ears. Half a kilo of greens now cost 1.09 renminbi (about 15?). "Before the snow, a week ago, it was only...