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...Why the gap...

...Guns and violence are certainly inappropriate for my son's viewing, and he never gets to watch those shows...

...Then, under Reagan and Bush, there was a 12-year-drought...

...But crime's largest environmental impact is to drive people out of cities, which are very energy-efficient compared to suburban and rural areas...

...Even the environmental movement's growing concern with social justice has not extended very far into criminal justice...

...For example, there is growing acceptance of the idea that neighbors have a right to know when a sexual predator is released into their community...

...March 30, 1995] 80 The American Spectator July 1995 Wall Street Journal On the howl page of a great American daily, another moral and intellectual colossus steps forward to improve the benighted: In response to your March 27 Marketplace article "It's 8 p.m., Your Kids Are Watching Sex on TV...

...This time around, Boadwee turns himself into a human spray-gun, squirting colorful streams of paint out of his derriere...

...More important, I'm the proud adoptive father of Jon Adams, a fiveand-a-half-year-old kindergartner my husband and I adopted almost five years ago...

...The solutions to many of America's urban problems could be found in ecological thinking...

...Our society has not banned cars, but it has made them less harmful to the Earth by using available technology to increase fuel efficiency and decrease emissions...

...Of course, the difference is that thi militia right comes armed with ideas am guns, whereas the mainstream far righ comes armed only with ideas...

...Daily Vanguard (Portland State University) Another perspicacious university president at work solemnizing, edifying, and assisting our Nation's Arabs and Muslims, and any passing male canine intent on answering nature's call: "Trees are smarter than people sometimes," said PSU President Judith Ramaley at the gathering...

...Joe Alsop did not...

...Q: After Lucy, you found a bonanza of hominid fossils starting in late 1975 at Hadar, in Ethiopia, then almost nothing until 1990...

...Most important to me as a parent in the TV age, your focus drew concern away from the effects of TV violence and toward TV sex...

...Mengistu's fossils...

...Some of the same ideas that can protect people from pollution can also protect them from crime...

...As he was saying this, his other phone rang...

...The tree was planted to provide a memorial for the victims of the bombing and to give respite to the Arab and Muslim communities who may have felt excluded from the national day of mourning on Sunday, April 23, [ceremony coordinator Bishara] Costandi said...

...San Francisca [April 18, 1995] The New Yorker One Mr...

...He wasn't able to get her...

...But it should...

...Jeff McMillan bares his Wertherian soul: I try to pride myself on maybe being a little more understanding than the "typical" male who is painted with such care by women who have no comprehension of how much I feel for the feminist movement...

...Mr...

...April 12, 1995] Toronto Globe and Mail Another concerned Canadian speaks out: If anything speaks to the anachronism of the right to bear arms, it is Oklahoma City...

...Four giant photos and two videos show the artist hard at work in his studio...

...Only after you learn that every drop of paint and gestural flourish on Boadwee's canvases was applied via his backside does his art's kick begin to be felt...

...With existing technology, it would be easy to create guns that could not be fired without an access code...

...Al Gore called and wasn't able to get her...

...James Barclay, Islington, Ont...

...They are a bad influence...

...Guns, too, could be made safer...

...Teddy Kennedy called...

...ism, a monument to mankind's mos decent instincts, and no bazooka ads—though interested parties may contac Associate Publisher for Advertising Joht Funk at our Arlington offices: It is no great exaggeration to say tha American Survival Guide is just Thy American Spectator with bazooka ads...

...We are a tighter, more loving family than most...

...Why am I not allowed to feel the pain, share the rage and march with my sisters to alleviate the pain of future generations...

...And last year, Timothy White announced a new 4.4-million-year-old species of hominid...

...TV is the realm of fantasy, so it's the responsibility of TV programmers to create peace-oriented shows...

...April 2, 1995] New York Times Magazine The wit and wisdom of Donald Johanson, head of the Institute of Human Origins and discoverer of "Lucy, an early human ancestor...

...Adam Gopnik meditates on the America beyond the Hudson River and finds himself comparing a magazine of the "militia right," whose readers are w dependent on conspiracy as is Mr Gopnik, with one of the great literary events of the Twentieth Century, a buffet of the Arts, a showcase of humanitarian...

...God save America from its Constitution...

...Clearly, she hadn't known...

...Not a mean ingless difference but not a decisive one either, as we discover when the ideas beim promoted are the kind whose logical conse quence is to make somebody else want ti go pick up a gun...

...Instead, they love to show guns and violence...

...I guess pride doesn't qualify me to "intrude" in a public crusade against violence—presumably because I am a perpetrator of that violence...

...As soon as Clinton got elected, hominid fossils started turning up again at Hadar and other sites...

...for the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, clogging the roads with commuters and spreading development over areas that were woodlands, wetlands and farmlands just twenty years ago...

...and as a prop in do-it-yourself photographs of modern masterpieces...

...Walter Lippmann, James Reston and others performed that task well...

...Merchants resort to over packaging to reduce the risk of theft and product tampering...

...May 4, 1995] Green Calendar & Environmental News Digest (Metro D.C...

...Tsk, tsk: Not a sparrow fell during the Cold War that Joe Alsop did not believe was shot by Moscow's cannon, not a Soviet threat arose to any American concern anywhere that Alsop did not insist would topple American interests everywhere like a "row of dominoes," not a new Soviet weapon did he fail to see as giving birth to a new and ominous "missile gap...

...Our discussions of crime have focused on corporate crimes such as the Exxon oil spill or environmental crimes such as illegal dumping...

...Fear of crime deters people from walking and biking, and motivates people to use taxis and private cars rather than buses and subways...

...In the past, it has served as a canvas for his juicy, pseudo-Expressionist paintings...

...Since 1980, over 100,000 people have left D.C...

...Yoder says that Alsop prided himself on trading in facts, but these were not facts...

...People leave their lights on when nobody's home, sometimes with the aid of electric appliances to turn the lights on automatically...

...A: With the exception of Lucy (at the tail end of the Nixon Administration), we found a great number of fossils at the time of Carter's election and shortly thereafter...

...We must challenge the right wing to explain why mindlessly reducing welfare will not generate a corresponding increase in child prostitution or violent crime...

...April 1995] The American Spectator July 1995 81...

...Thomas A. McKean-Reich Editor-in-Chief Victory...

...Doris Kearns Goodwin lives in Massachusetts but was giving a speech in California...

...My own feeling is she doesn't know," Richard Goodwin, the writer's husband, said at 7:25 last night...

...This would prevent criminals from using guns stolen from honest people, and would reduce the number of fatal accidents involving guns...

...The dull explanation for the drought is that the Eritrean war forced a suspension of fieldwork during the 1980s, but I prefer another theory: Republicans are better at keeping skeletons in the closet...

...Until now, crime has not been addressed as an environmental issue, but the parallels between environmental justice and criminal justice cannot be ignored...

...This is a logical extension of communities' right to know if there are toxic wastes in their environment, a right ecologists have demanded for years...

...as a stage on which finger-puppets frolic...

...At Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, the largest gallery contains the result: 50 abstract canvases, ranging in size from 2by-3 feet to 6-feet-square, saturated with gallons of paint in a rainbow of colors and an impressive variety of splatters, stains, stripes and runs...

...Environmentalism also suggests an approach to gun control...

...But what about Col...

...April 28, 1995] New York Times Book Review In reviewing the biography of Joe Alsop, relatively harmless Cold Warrior, one Leslie H. Gelb, now president of the demonic Council on Foreign Relations, transforms himself into the Village Voice's organic gardening columnist...

...An environmental approach, to gun control would also allow victims of armed crime to sue manufacturers and retailers when they allow their guns to fall into the hands of criminals, just as environmentalists demand the right to hold the producers of toxic waste responsible for the damage their creations cause...

...Before you discover how these paintings were made, they appear to be a competent homage to a slew of minor Modernists...

...Bill Clinton is probably waiting to call until after his speech...

...Environmental Network) In the pages of one of America's most luminous intellectual reviews, an environmentalist sage makes common cause with the Michigan Militia: Recently, Americans of many political persuasions have plunged into a spirited public policy debate concerning crime and violence, but environmentalists have largely stayed on the sidelines...

...Our children need to see peace to believe it's possible...

...I'm the editor-in-chief of Victory!, the national gay and lesbian entrepreneur magazine...

...Distant sounds of whooping and exhilaration were heard...

...It's hard to swallow the idea that, because of my gender, I would make women feel uncomfortable if I were to march with them...

...They were vast exaggerations of Soviet capabilities, exaggerations that ignited right-wing hysteria at home and prevented the sensible public debate that is essential to sensible policy, for sensible policy depends directly on the ability of leaders to make distinctions in public discourse...

...It was his wife...

...The other reason ecologists should get involved with fighting crime is that we have over 25 years of experience in protecting people from stupid and greedy behavior that threatens their health and safety...

...May 8, 1995]Washington Post The sublime world of the Pulitzer Prize—Court Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is awarded a PP for her politically correct No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War 11, and her many scholarly friends instantaneously send in their felicitations: The Pulitzer often catches its recipients far from home...

...April 19, 1995] Washington Times In the pages of the Good Times, the new chairman of the NAACP gives a calm assessment of Republican attempts to balance the federal budget: "Imagine the monstrous consequences if Newt succeeds in making starvation public policy in a society where the poor are heavily armed," Myrlie Evers-Williams said Tuesday...

...Crimes such as rape, robbery and murder pose a large and direct threat to the natural environment by forcing people to make lifestyle choices that poison the Earth and consume more resources...

...Boadwee's abstractions recall Sam Francis' joyous bubbles of color, Morris Louis' snappy peninsulas of pigment and Yves Klein's luxurious monochromes...

...April 23, 1995] The State News (Michigan State University) Excluded from a Take Back the Night march, Mr...

...April 26, 1995] Los Angeles Times A great morning newspaper publishes a report on the artistic methods employed by an heir to Michelangelo that must have made agreeable reading over breakfast or shortly thereafter: Keith Boadwee's body pops up in each body of work he makes...