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...busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard ... HE IS HARD-MUSCLED, HANDSOME, HANDY WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38, AND HIS HIDE IS AS TOUGH AS THE BLUING ON A PISTOL BARREL. Decent, disillusioned and altogether incredible, he is a soap opera Superman. He is television's 'Private Eye.' Smarter than the cops, craftier than...
Because they were so hot, the first stars would have poured out not just visible light, but also copious amounts of high-energy ultraviolet radiation. One effect of that radiation would have been to knock apart hydrogen atoms, thus destroying their ability to block light. That process is known as reionization, and those stars, forming perhaps 100 million years into the Dark Ages, or roughly at the era's midpoint, might have rendered the universe transparent on their own if they had lived long enough. But unlike the sun, which has survived 5 billion years so far and should live...
...full force of the city police department down on Charles. Remarkably athletic, he ran - though the backyards and over fences. Then he turned a corner around a brick building and a police cruiser spotted him. As he ran along the wall the cop in the car tried to block his escape by driving right up to the bricks. Charles didn't quite make it past as the car hit the wall; his upper leg was crushed against the bricks by the cruiser's bumper. I met Charles because I was on call...
...about is an anti-Latino sentiment that has been growing in this country," said Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed suit last week in federal court to stop the Hazleton ordinance. Perales' group will ask the judge next week to block implementation of the law, set to go into effect in September...
...special-election ballot proposals. His job approval ratings plummeted to 36%, before rebounding this summer to 49%. The consultants have said Angelides should outline for voters his rationale for rejecting the incumbent while articulating a vision that inspires his base and resonates with the state's big block of moderate voters...