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Michael Pallamary was surveying a construction site in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon last month when he noticed smoke pouring from an apartment house across the street. Vaulting a fence, Pallamary, 32, rushed into the building and, despite thick smoke and intense heat, pounded on doors to alert some 30 occupants. Then he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Tenant Tim Hurley, 19. Finally Pallamary collapsed. When he left the hospital two days later, he was handed a city paramedic bill for $189.93 -- including a 50% surcharge because he lives out of town...
...even creation scientists concede that the verdict about the "man prints" has been convincingly handed down. "As a scientist, I am willing to be wrong if I am wrong," says John D. Morris, associate professor of geology at the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, Calif. His book Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People Who Knew Them and a creationist movie on the same subject have been withdrawn from circulation...
...treading on the civil liberties of others or using unnecessary force. Indeed, most law-enforcement authorities object when individuals or neighborhood-watch groups, such as one in Sun City, Ariz., carry pistols. Handguns in untrained hands are a clear menace. Last year, for example, a homeowner in El Cajon, Calif., shot a 13-year-old boy who set off an alarm in the man's storage shed. In San Diego, an 87-year-old man fired at a policeman investigating a fire next door. Both men were lucky; the shot missed...
...have enlisted the aid of a favored if surprising ally: the bombardier beetle, a half-inch insect found near streams and ponds around the world. Their case is presented in a new book for children titled Bomby, the Bombardier Beetle, published by the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, Calif. Author Hazel May Rue, a retired schoolteacher, argues that the nature of the diminutive creature's defenses proves that it could not have evolved. It must have first appeared in its present form, she maintains, carefully prefabricated...
...Cinda W. Gorman El Cajon, Calif...