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...worried parents that she would never go out alone at night. But this time, she took the chance. She never got home again. After she had been missing for 40 hours, her mutilated body, partly covered by an old piece of carpet, was found in the rubbish-strewn backyard of a rundown rooming house. It bore the Ripper's trademark: a distinctive pattern of vicious wounds that the police have not revealed...
...rarity since the pitch is usually mastered in desperation by aging veterans. Joe started as a fireballer who played with the Chicago Cubs in 1967, then bounced around from club to club as his fastball faded. In 1972, when he was sent to the minors, those backyard sessions finally asserted their hold: Joe perfected the knuckleball. In 1975 he joined the Astros, who now have a flutter at the pennant...
...contending club, feel what it's like to go into a clubhouse every day and know you're going to be in the thick of a pennant race." The experience, Joe says, is so good it's almost like the old days in the backyard. "Pitching for me now," says Joe Niekro, "is just like going out and playing catch...
Some critics, however, claim that Chandler has emphasized national and foreign coverage at the expense of local news. Until 1977 the Times had only two reporters covering city hall. The paper missed a scandal in its own backyard when Columbia Pictures Executive Davie Begelman in 1977 was accused of financial improprieties; the Times's first substantial piece on "Hollywoodgate" was a condensed version of a Washington Post story. Minorities complain that Chandler cares more about covering Mexico than Hispanic East Los Angeles. In January for instance, the Times virtually ignored a story about the death of Eula Love...
...service stations, and is widely available in Brazil in an even richer mixture of 20% ethanol and 80% gasoline. Now, however, a number of alky-boosters are touting the virtues of using the ethanol undiluted. Besides being out of OPEC's control, the fuel can be made in backyard stills that can cost as little as a few hundred dollars to build and almost nothing to operate...