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...slick 16-page Gift Handbook (subtitle: A Tradition of Excellence Through Giving), which lists such unbudgeted items as a $30,000 artificial lake for the 18th green of the municipal golf course, a $2.5 million indoor pool and a $1.2 million indoor tennis facility. While these wishes still await their fulfillment, Lake Forest has received $104,000 in donations since the list came out in September, including trees for the city's parkways, landscaping for city hall, an exercise trail in a city park and an oak table for city council meetings...
Saltonstall said the repairs would probably cost more than $50,000. He added that officials were examining insurance policies and will await the results of the investigation before deciding how to pay for the damage...
...advertising. The ACSR labeled Philip Morris' response to a shareholder resolution last year concerning the company's activities in the Third World "callous and misleading." And the governments of victimized Third World nations also offer little hope for a solution--many have yet to recognize the health hazards that await, and where smoking-related disease is already widespread, most governments cannot spend scarce funds anti-smoking campaigns...
Death row is about the same size in Alabama, where 55 men await the chair in Holman. Mitchell Rutledge, 23 years old, I.Q. 84, is among them. "You're just sitting there waiting for somebody to come kill you," says Rutledge of his purgatory, "just like a dog out there in the dog pound." But he does not claim innocence. No: he did kill a man two days before Christmas 1980. Rutledge was doped up and drunk with two friends. One pal brought along a gun, and with it they took off on a joyride...
...legislators have been successful. Last week when the Justices declined by a 6-to-3 vote to hear Brooks' appeal, they once again okayed capital-punishment procedures, at least implicitly. In Texas, 171 inmates await execution. One of them, Jeffrey Lee Griffin, 27, said death row was dismayed by Brooks' execution, which had been scheduled only a month before. "Everybody walked around like they were in another world," Griffin said. "It seemed like people's hearts stopped beating...