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...circle is not only vicious, it breeds violence. As crime rates rise, state legislators react by passing stiff laws requiring longer minimum prison sentences. Result: more prisoners stay longer in prisons that are already crammed well past their planned capacity. Tensions rise as up to five inmates crowd into one-man cubicles. Gang rule prevails, as the toughest convicts abuse and torment the meek or nonviolent, and guards on undermanned correction staffs fear to intervene. When an inmate is finally freed, he is equipped for only one thing: to survive in the ways of the walled jungle. More often than...
...Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral education and free-enterprise economics in small classes (average pupil-teacher ratio...
...growth in condominiums, usually by the conversion of scarce rental apartments. In early winter, it seemed the anticondo forces had gained a distinct upper hand, when the State Supreme Court upheld an ordinance effectively barring condominium conversion. Attempts to expand the scope of the law even farther, though, met stiff opposition this spring, and opponents of condo restrictions and rent controls appear to be gearing up for a major offensive in the November city elections...
...took advantage of every edge they had. "There was a lot of mutual exploitation," admits Alison Morss, describing the strategic benefits of a four-to-one, male-female ratio. "We prided ourselves on how much we could get the poor devil to spend on us," she adds. Despite the stiff competition a young man might find at a Thursday afternoon tea or an early evening jolly-up, it was still he who had to initiate any private dates. Sex was naturally a topic of great fascination, but few were brazen enough to discuss it in public, let alone defy their...
...making U.S. purchasing power greater than it has been since 1969; and last week's election victory by François Mitterrand's Socialist Party gave the rate another jolt by further weakening the franc (see WORLD). Tourists have been quick to capitalize on the change. Despite stiff increases in transatlantic airfares, advance bookings from New York City to Paris...