Editorials on gangs and youth intervention in Lenexa seminar
Kansas patrolman Larry Roland warned that youth gangs are educated and well connected using pagers, fax and email. He said rural areas feel the impact and that there is no single fix, only many small solutions, with a coming homicide on a school campus possible. More on approaches beyond police tomorrow.
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Larry Roland
Lenexa
Ottawa
Roland
Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
America
It's Your Quarter community forum on Ottawa issues
A reader urges input on local matters including the Ottawa University's mascot and relations with the Ottawa Indian people led by Chief Charles Dawes. The note calls for enforcing school zone speed limits, licensing for door to door sales by Scouts, and broader public involvement via the community forum, with a contact number for calls.
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Ottawa University
University
Ottawa Indian
Charles Dawes
Cybercreeps Attack The Information Superhighway
A female cybercreep expert describes online harassment by men using handles to insult and sexually proposition women on message boards and the Internet. She jokes the phenomenon resembles a modern Chester the Molester, noting many users hide behind fake identities from home.
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Chester the Molester
Patricia
Babe
Edit Your Life to Master the Information Flood
The piece argues two paradoxes about the Information Highway your age and the flood of data. It urges selective reading and knowing what not to learn. It champions editing information to align with personal goals for work and life.
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Ignorstte
France
Rome
Pyramids
Giza
Charles Dickens
Anthony Trollope
Honore de Balzac
Simpson
Fifty Years Ago Today War News October 31 1944
British bombers destroy Gestapo HQ in Aarhus Denmark aiding Danish resistance by wiping police records. German troops abandon Salonika ending evacuations from Aegean garrisons. Soviets seize foothold at Kecskemét on the Tisza River as British push toward the Rabbi River in Italy.
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Gestapo
Aarhus
Denmark
Salonika
Greece
Aegean
Hungary
Tisza
Kecskemet
Italy
Rabbi River
Debating liquor by the drink and personal responsibility
Russell Reeves argues against liquor by the drink, saying morality cannot be legislated and responsibility rests with individuals. He cites employment and tax benefits of fine dining, links crime to social issues, and urges enforcing laws and personal accountability to reduce alcohol problems. Letters on the general election accepted through Nov. 3.
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Franklin County
Alco
Ottawa
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WNRO
By Bruce Tinsley
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