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...perceptual sense, the gloom is deeper because this time unemployment has hit an influential and vocal class of managers and other white-collar workers. "So many of us are seeing our peers thrown out of work," says John Rogers, who runs his own Chicago investment firm. "That's what's so frightening...
...Anchorage (26) and San Antonio (211). More people are being killed by strangers. Murder is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace. The easy availability of firearms means that a single flash of anger can lead to another grim statistic, and sociologists fear that people thrown out of work in the recession will take their anger out on their former bosses and co- workers or families. The Federal Centers for Disease Control, whose job is to investigate outbreaks of disease, now considers murder an epidemic...
With little else to do, many have turned to random -- and racially motivated -- violence. The national government counted 2,074 crimes motivated by hatred of foreigners in 1991, vs. only 246 in 1990. A Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a trolley car to his death in Dresden; a Vietnamese was stabbed nearly to death in Leipzig; some Soviet children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and were convalescing in a special children's home in Zittau, 150 miles south of Berlin, were assailed by a gang of stone-throwing drunks who shouted, "Jews...
...Governor, Clinton has thrown most of his effort into early-childhood intervention and education. Social Security numbers are recorded on birth certificates to help trace deadbeat fathers. He increased teachers' salaries but insisted on a controversial competency exam. Parents who don't show up at teacher meetings are fined $50. Starting in 1993, failing students will not be allowed to get a driver's license. Clinton has expanded Head Start and launched school-based health clinics (where condoms are distributed, much to the outrage of the religious right). While other governors have taken rich states and made them poor, Clinton...
After Alice Scott, a black newcomer from Milwaukee, had a cross burned on her lawn and a brick thrown through her window five weeks ago, dozens of residents, including schoolchildren, came by to express their support. "I cried when I saw all those cards and letters," says Scott, 32, who has found a job in a sandwich shop. "This town has some good people, and I'm gonna stay." Adds Charles Azebeokhai, the black head of the city's human rights office: "The only difference between Dubuque and cities like New York and Chicago is that...