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Anthony Knighton has only vague memories of beatings by his father, a roofer who now lives in Deerfield Beach. His sharpest memories of childhood are of neglect more than fear. After his mother died when he was three, Knighton, the youngest of six children, shuttled among various relatives in Georgia and Florida. By the time he was 15, he had moved 30 times. "It seemed like nobody cared about me," he says, "so I guessed I had to do for myself." Joyce Moore, 27, a cousin who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, recalls that "people would say he could come...
...plan stirred immediate debate. The Clinton campaign, which has offered its own pay-or-play system, applauded the proposal. The Bush Administration, which opposes fee regulation, attacked it. By far the sharpest criticism, though, came from the 271,000-member American Medical Association, which says the program would inevitably lead to medical rationing. Said Dr. James Todd, executive vice president of the A.M.A.: "Pay-or-play and global budgets are contrary to the American way." Perhaps, but then, so is a system that currently forces millions of American workers and their children to go without medical coverage -- a form...
While business people last week were trying to get used to new exchange rates, the currency crisis jolted political capitals from Bonn to Tokyo. The dollar's fall was a clear embarrassment to President George Bush and his re- election campaign. The sharpest plunge came in the two days after Bush's much touted acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention. The money markets seemed to be sending the message that they saw little in his proposals for jump-starting the U.S. economy. A wobbly dollar will make it harder for Bush to brag during the campaign about the strong...
...sharpest warnings have been issued about fish caught by recreational fishermen, which account for about 20% of the fish eaten in the U.S. Their catches in the Great Lakes can be so heavily contaminated with PCBs and other chemicals that the Medical Society of Genesee County, Mich., has taken the extraordinary step of warning that the stuff should not be eaten by "children or by men or women who ever plan to have children." All in all, says Jeffery Foran, an environmental-health expert at George Washington University, "if you're pregnant or nursing, you should probably avoid most kinds...
BASIC INSTINCT. This confused thriller, about a detective (Michael Douglas) and a bisexual novelist (Sharon Stone) who may do her sharpest work with an ice pick, has some steamy skin scenes; that's what all the ratings ruckus was about. (The film lost less than a minute and got an R.) But there's something wrong with a whodunit if, at the end, viewers are still asking, "O.K., who done it?" The answer is director Paul Verhoeven. And the next question...