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...from the sun's rays. Built by science and engineering students from 32 American and Canadian colleges and universities, the innovative cars, capable of reaching speeds of up to 113 k.p.h. (70 m.p.h.), are following an 11-day, 2,639-km (1,640-mile) course that began in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and will pass through eight states. The high-tech Soap Box Derby is scheduled to finish this week at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., outside Detroit. (In case of extended rain, the race may be delayed.) According to the < contest's sponsors -- GM, the Department...
...want it known nationally that I don't ever want to see my father again," David Rothenberg, 13, declared last week in Buena Park, Calif. He is still horribly scarred from the burns he suffered in 1983 when Charles Rothenberg, in a custody fight with his ex-wife, poured kerosene over the boy and set him afire. The elder Rothenberg, 49, was released last week from a California penitentiary, having qualified for parole after serving just half of a 13-year sentence for arson and attempted murder. To keep him away from David, the state will spend an estimated...
...intriguing of all, Strasser is being permitted to apply his fluent vision -- joyfully modernist, austere but playful, reasoned, practical, never grim -- to the interiors of huge blue-chip office hives. He recently finished a 1.2 million-sq.-ft., multibuilding IBM outpost near Dallas, and construction has begun in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on a two-block- long office building for a giant entertainment company. "I don't assume a corporation is conservative and conventional," he says. "I don't feel that as soon as they say 'corporate,' you have to do chickenshit work...
...only problem with Clark's pick was that it left distinctive marks, which enabled the FBI to follow his trail. His downfall came when he stayed too long in a residence in Buena Park, Calif. The feds caught up with him there last week and arrested him. They also confiscated his wondrous tool, and are hoping that he has not let anyone else in on his lucrative secret...
...given away lots of bicycles and wagons to people less fortunate than us," says Nora. She has joined Ron on the porch and sips a cup of Yerba Buena herb tea. Today even the witches, famous in this valley, must be yielding to the sun, loosening their joints in this welcome reprieve from the chill...