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WASHINGTON — Day after last week, Washington sat down to an uneasy breakfast with Rosa Lee Cuningham, and learned about her half century of blighted life in blighted neighborhoods.
Washington readers shocked by sad tale
The Associated Press
On the front page of The Washington Post, the city read how Rosa Lee taught a grandson, 10, to steal a winter jacket from a trade shop. "Just walk on out the door. It's your coat."
How she would sell her urine, when it was clean, to other clients of a methadone clinic when they feared their samples would show traces of drugs.
How, to pay off her daughter's drug debts, she sold crack herself one Saturday, but gave so many free samples
And how she engaged in prostitution, and one night acquiesced when a customer asked for sex with her daughter, 11. The daughter became a prostitute.
The Post played "Rosa Lee's Story" big, shoving aside other news to make room for it on page one for eight days. The stories ran 30,000 to 35,000 words, enough to fill a 175-page book.
A city used to crisis was jarred by the attackers.
to the daughter and a son that she didn't recover her costs.
The reporter for the story, Leon Dash, spent four years interviewing Rosa Lee.
The Post has gotten more than 5,000 calls, most of them disapproving, said Dash's editor, Steve Luxenberg.
"They want the Post to do something," Luxenberg said. "They want a happy ending."
He said readers wanted the Post to
offer solutions to the problem.
Many of the approving calls, he said, came from social workers, court workers, police and psychologists, saying the region did not understand the extent of the problem and the series would help.
But many dismuyed readers, both black and white, complained that the stories perpetuated stereotypes.
"It's degrading to black women," said Deborah Martinez, 37, who grew up in Washington, daughter of a key-punch operator at the Census Bureau. "Drugs were around when I was in school, but I'm not a drug addict. You choose your lifestyle."
Post ombudsman Joann Byrd, who
receives reader complaints, said the readers most common question was: Why were these stories running?
"I'm beginning to think that journalists are the only ones who believe a news story needs no objective beyond giving people information," she wrote.
She said Leonard Downie, the paper's executive editor, anticipating critics, stacked up 11 positive stories about blacks the Post had published during a six-week period.
Each day the series ran, the Post carried a separate piece that explained that Dash's work was intended to tell a story that statistics alone could not: "the interconnections of racism, poverty, illiteracy, drug abuse and crime, and why these conditions persist."
Mystery bench's arrival welcomed by town
The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — One onlooker called it a beautiful act of vandalism. Another guessed it was the work of a "rogue intellectual."
Somehow, a finely crafted red granite bench bearing a passage from Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando" has appeared in a public park.
"Somebody who liked to think put this here," said Pat McEleaney, who read the inscription aloud to her husband.
And no one — or next to no one — knows who put it there.
"I suspect a woman was behind this," said Pam Varley, who walks her dog through the park every day. "It's a womanly quote. It is a womanly quote.
author. and it's a womanly idea.
"A rogue intellectual. There are plenty of those in Cambridge."
Whoever was responsible, the city decided yesterday that the monument could stay.
"With all the negative press that's out there, to see someone do something like this is a really positive gesture," said Mike Nicoloro, managing director of the Water Department, which owns the land.
foot surface of the bench seems to have been written for the place. It comes from of Chapter 5 of "Orlando": "There are wild birds' feathers—the owl, the nightjurs. I shall dream wild dreams. I should at peace here with only the sky above."
Kay Hudgins, who visited the clearing amid the pine trees, said it proved her theory that somebody's ashes had been spread there. She called it a "beautiful act of vandalism."
Whoever was behind the caper had to haul the 600-pound monument down a steep embankment.
The inscription chiseled atop the 4-
The stone and the inscription cost at least $2,000, according to a local monument supplier who was not involved.
University of Chicago student faces possible deportation
The Associated Press
Whether he returns is up to an immigration judge.
SAN DIEGO—Rafael Ibarra enjoyed his freshman year at the University of Chicago, and the school is eager to see him back for his sophomore year.
Today, four days before classes start, the biochemistry major has to see a judge who could deport him.
And it's because he gave an honest
answer on his college applications.
Ibarra, 20, graduated from Point Loma High School in 1993 as his class valedictorian, winning full scholarships from top colleges around the country.
When it came time to fill in applications, he acknowledged that he is still a citizen of Mexico and not a legal resident of the United States, despite living in this country since he was 6.
The University of Chicago said it would take him anyway, on the condition he try to legalize his status.
Barrar reported to the Immigration and Naturalization Service and asked for a student visa. But the INS said he didn't qualify since he had already attended U.S. schools, and it started deportation proceedings.
The INS judge must weigh several factors, including the hardship that deportation would create and how well Ibarra has assimilated.
"We really want him back," said David Owens, Ibarra's advisor.
So far, 400 of the babbing toys have been found along 500 miles of Alaskan shoreline, and that is helping researchers trace wind and ocean currents.
"This is serious science," said Curtis Blesmesmert, an oceanographer at Evans-Hamilton Inc., a consulting company in Seattle. "We are learning a great deal."
Some 29,000 rubber ducks, turtles and other bath tub toys spilled overboard 10 months ago in the North Pacific when a freighter carrying the cargo on its deck was hit by a storm.
SANFRANCISCO — in this age of computers, lasers and orbiting satellites, scientists are learning from rubber duckies.
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Rubber duckies float for science The Associated Press
A preliminary study of the duckle migration was published this month in EOS, official journal of the American Geophysical Union, by Ebbshemer and computer modeller W. James Ingram Jr. of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle.
They also analyzed an earlier example of oceanographic science when 61,000 Nike shoes fell off a ship in 1990 and floated toward the West Coast.
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