much re- cent experience, is "community-oriented policing." At its best, it involves police working with other city agencies and the residents of a targeted neighborhood to es- tablish public order and safety. Some proven remedies: cleaning up alleys, fixing broken windows, improving lighting, tear- ing down abandoned buildings (havens for drug users), repeatedly sweeping drug-in- fested areas, and deploying foot patrols. The results are more than cosmetic: "Law- abiding citizens...
Vernon Carstensen, in P~ib1iii.s (Fall 1988), 1017 Gladfelter Hall. Temple University 025-25, Philadelphia, Pa. 19122.
In 1785, Congress passed a law, now ob- scure, that was to change the face of Amer- ica during the next century.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided for the division of the nation's then-limited public lands west of the Appalachian Mountains into townships six miles square, subdivided into 36 one-mile- square (or 640-acre) "sections."
"Like bees or ants or other...
"The Powers That Be Lobbying" Sheila Kaplan, in The wash-ington Monthly (Dec. 1988), 161 1 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20009.
On Capitol Hill, the "media lobby1'-representing TV broadcasters, cable TV, and newspaper and magazine publish- ers-is one of the most powerful. Do these guardians of the Fourth Estate spend their time crusading for First Amendment rights? "Occasionally," reports Kaplan, a freelance writer. "But the day-to-day work of a Washington m...
"The Powers That Be Lobbying" Sheila Kaplan, in The wash-ington Monthly (Dec. 1988), 161 1 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20009.
On Capitol Hill, the "media lobby1'-representing TV broadcasters, cable TV, and newspaper and magazine publish- ers-is one of the most powerful. Do these guardians of the Fourth Estate spend their time crusading for First Amendment rights? "Occasionally," reports Kaplan, a freelance writer. "But the day-to-day work of a Washington...
the American So- ciety of Newspaper Editors, "and less about government meetings."
Big city dailies also face increasing com- petition from suburban newspapers and, especially, local TV news. But TV journal-ists do not elevate the quality of reporting, observes Ehrenhalt. Kevin O'Connor, re- cently elected Milwaukee county trea-
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surer, says of his experience during the campaign: "If you could stage something with color, you could get covered."
The Jou...
his academic
says Kimball. Although he prized clarity of successors.
Babel "What's Wrong With Babel?" Leon R. Kass, in The American Scholar (Winter 1989), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
"Then they said, 'Come, let us build our- The story of Babel, he notes, is one of a
selves a city, and a tower with its top in the series of tales in Genesis-Eden, Cain and
heavens, and let us make a name for our- Abel, the Flood-in which man is told of
selves, lest we be scattered...
Clark R. Chapman, in Asfrononzy
'Mercu~'~
(Nov. 19881, 1027 N. 7th St., Milwaukee, Wisc. 53233.
More than a decade after America's un- manned Mariner 10 flew near the planet Mercury during 1974-75, scientists have fi-nally digested all of the data from the flight. And they are starting to ask some big questions, reports Chapman, of Tuc- son's Planetary Science Institute.
Located about midway between the Earth and the Sun, Mercury is a "truly bi- zarre" planet. Its rock cmst is unusually t...
Clark R. Chapman, in Asfrononzy
'Mercu~'~
(Nov. 19881, 1027 N. 7th St., Milwaukee, Wisc. 53233.
More than a decade after America's un- manned Mariner 10 flew near the planet Mercury during 1974-75, scientists have fi-nally digested all of the data from the flight. And they are starting to ask some big questions, reports Chapman, of Tuc- son's Planetary Science Institute.
Located about midway between the Earth and the Sun, Mercury is a "truly bi- zarre" planet. Its rock cmst is unusually t...
(Nov./Dec. 1988), 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10131-'0191.
Only 34 years have passed since a patholo- Scientists have long since agreed that all gist performing an autopsy on Albert Ein- human brains are virtually identical. Ex- stein removed his brain to search for the cept in one crucial respect: the arrange- secret to the great scientist's genius. ment and number of connections between
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PERIODICALS
neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain. The secrets of the brain lie in &...
chemi- cal agents called cell adhesion molecules (CAMs). Just as CAMs create thousands of feathers in chickens, making no two feath- ers identical, so they create a multitude of subtly different neural networks in the brain.
The second stage occurs after birth, when the strengths of the synapses (be- tween the neurons) are modified sights, sounds, and other outside stimuli.
Ultimately, the workings of the brain are
Greenhouse Effect? "About
determined by "competition" among di...