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Safety Standards. The first victories won by Nader in the 1960s involved the setting of federal automobile safety standards, some of which are now being rolled back. The Administration is reducing the collision speed at which a bumper must protect a car from 5 m.p.h. to 2.5 m.p.h. -a move consumer activists say will raise insurance rates and accident costs. Despite a request by the Administration to delay its decision, the Supreme Court ruled last June that cost-benefit analyses cannot be required when setting federal health standards for the workplace. Nevertheless, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA...
Tired of seeing their state overrun by outsiders, members of the Colorado Native Society (membership requirement: a Colorado birth certificate) took to the road with bumper stickers resembling the state license plate but proudly emblazoned with the word NATIVE. Longtime residents, naturally, felt left out. Equally resentful of the newcomers, they hit the highways with a sticker of their own: SEMI-NATIVE. The immigrants decided to fight back, and before very long, Coloradans were sighting ALIEN vehicles and others labeled FOREIGNER or TRANSPLANT. RESTLESS NATIVES were seen roaming the interstates. Some, lacking a native sense of humor, asked WHO CARES...
...winning the battle of the bumpers? Entrepreneur Eric Glade, 26, for one. The Utah transplant has a flourishing sideline marketing the stickers and matching T shirts. The profits are private, but Glade says that retailers J.C. Penney's and Joslins have placed orders totaling $50,000. Now he is planning bumper crops in other "snob state" markets: California, Texas, Oregon, "anywhere there is a native population worried about the influx of outsiders...
WILL THE LAST AMERICAN LEAVING SOUTH FLORIDA PLEASE BRING THE FLAG So reads a bumper sticker in Miami. It is one small sign of Floridians' growing anger about the 150,000 Cuban and Haitian refugees who have beached on their state's shores since the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Although the care of undocumented aliens from the Caribbean is a federal responsibility, the burden of supporting them has fallen mostly on Florida, and Governor Robert Graham has had enough of it. He is suing the Federal Government for failure to curtail immigration into South Florida. Says he: "The status...
...tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about the day she and Darby discovered a corpse in their backyard. At night Darby wanders through rock halls as the more engaged members of the audience pogo to the music and slam into each other with the force of bumper cars. Darby doesn't dance much; he simply staggers forward, backward, attentive to some inner music, like the dying of his brain cells. Within the year, the rest of him will be dead, of overdose and ennui...