Jewish World Review
The Continuing Crisis
By
Chuck Shepherd

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With only 30,000 hotel rooms in Rio de Janeiro, and 50,000 visitors expected for the June United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, officials persuaded owners of many of the city's short-time "love hotels" (typically renting for four hours at a time) to change business plans for a few days to accommodate the delegates. A BBC News stringer reported that the hotels will remove some special fixtures and furniture, such as "erotic chairs" and velvet wall coverings, but that the large, round beds would stay. Fortunately, the conference does not begin until June 13. The night of June 12 ("Lovers Day") is a big income-producer for short-stay hotels. [BBC News, 4-11-2012]
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The Marine Wounded Warriors Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., generally enjoys excellent support from the community, but in an April report of the Government Accountability Office, Marines complained of a "petting zoo" environment in which civilian charities and advertisers use the battalion to seek out "poster" faces and bodies that "looked the part" of wounded veterans, such as those severely burned or missing limbs. Warriors who suffer post-traumatic stress or brain injuries often appear outwardly "normal" and are likely to be ignored by the support organizations, thus setting a "bad tone" among the wounded. [Washington Post, 4-5-2012]
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Not Your Classic Perps: (1) In October, Dr. Kimberly Lindsey, 44, a deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control's Laboratory Science, Policy, and Practice Program Office, was charged with two counts of child molestation and bestiality involving a 6-year-old boy. (2) In April, Yaron Segal, 30, a post-doctoral researcher at a physics lab at MIT, was arrested upon arriving in Grand Junction, Colo., after arranging with a woman online to have sex with the woman's underage daughter (an adventure that was the product of a law enforcement sting). (Two weeks later, Segal was found dead in his jail cell of an apparent suicide.) [WSB-TV (Atlanta), 10-11-2011] [KMGH-TV (Denver), 4-17-2012]
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Oh, Dear!: (1) At a March Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance, the music continued uninterrupted as two patrons engaged in a fistfight over box seating. Conductor Riccardo Muti "never stopped conducting," said a patron. "He very gracefully, without missing a beat -- literally -- he brought (the second movement) to a very quiet and subdued close." (2) It costs $8,500 (plus $3,000 annual dues) to join the ultra-prestigious New York Athletic Club, which counts Olympic champions among its upper-crust members. However, an April brawl in a back room, said to have begun over a woman, saw (according to witnesses) fighting "wolf packs" in a "lion's pit" that resulted in several bloody injuries, with two people sent to the hospital and three arrested. [Chicago Sun-Times, 3-10-2012] [New York Times, 4-24-2012]
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• Fine Points of the Law
• Love redefined; Questionable judgments
• Unclear on the Concept
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• Least Competent Bank!;The Ultimate Gated Community
• Least Competent Criminals; Law on Planet Florida
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• Respect all cultures!?
• Least Competent Criminals
• The Continuing Crisis; Trail-Blazing Science
• Leading Economic Indicators
• Animal Tales
• Trail-Blazing Science; Fast-Food Culture Shock
• Justice -- literally -- gone to the dogs!
• Least Competent Criminals
• You can't make this stuff up!
• Ironies
• Could Be True. Maybe Not.
• French Full-Body Health Care; Fine Points of the Law
• Least Competent Criminals; Undignified Deaths
• People With Issues; Pennsylvania Bites?
• Huh!?
• Great, ahem, Art!
• Government in Action!
• Least Competent Criminals; Recurring Themes
• People With Issues; It's Everywhere!
• The Classic Middle Name (all-new!)
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• Creme de la Weird; Armed and Clumsy (all new!)
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• Bright Ideas
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• Questionable Judgments
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• People With Too Much Money
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Product Giveaways
• Weird Science
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