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Pandemonium reigns when the outlaw--800 lbs. of overfed, visibly upset black bear--emerges at a dead run from the basement crawl space. One cop fires orange paint, others rubber bullets. Searles shoots self-propelled flash-bang rockets. It may not seem so, but the "eviction" was meant kindly. California law permits the killing of bears caught in private homes. Folks in Mammoth Lakes, however, prefer a "bear spanking." "The meaner I can be," says Searles, who developed this kinder if not gentler approach, "the longer he'll live...
...cast member: Dylan Pickles, who is promptly and unfortunately nicknamed "Dil" by his very own parents. He turns out to be just as sour as his namesake, much to older brother Tommy's dismay. To allay Tommy's miseries, his father Stu takes him to the basement and bestows "responsibility" upon him in the form of an heirloom pocket watch; as a big brother, Stu tells Tommy, he now has a responsibility to take care of Dil. Tommy is awed by the watch his father has given him, and takes good care of the "sponsitility," as he calls it, throughout...
...tickets were available beginning two weeks ago in the council's office in Holworthy basement, and council members began selling them outside of the science center this past Monday...
...phosphorous acid spill in the Lyman Physics Laboratories followed a week later, requiring the evacuation of the Lyman, Jefferson and Cruft laboratories. The chemical was leaking from a container in the basement machine shop of Lyman...
Everyone with heart disease knows that if you survive a first attack, life becomes a long, complex negotiation with the menace--the killer in black pajamas who has come to live in the basement. You hear him down there. Sometimes he climbs the stairs and beats on the kitchen door. You feed him sublingual pellets of nitro and tell him to settle down...