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...some typical club antics a week and a half ago: students reported that at least four and perhaps as many as eight club partiers were brought to area hospitals with symptoms of alcohol poisoning. Club elders--evidently afraid of the devastating impact of increasingly tough' liability laws--decided to clamp down on drinking...
...more; the eye must search every corner of the film frame for glancing gags. Look closely in the villain's lair in RoboCop 2 and find effigies of his patron saints: Jesus, Mother Teresa, Elvis, Oliver North. Listen hard to Gremlins 2 and catch witty details about zillionaire Daniel Clamp's cable empire. It includes 24-hour channels devoted to archery and laundry, and a movie channel featuring "Casablanca, but with color -- and a happier ending." Gremlins 2 should carry the warning FOR ATTENTIVE VIEWERS ONLY...
...shelving measures that gave police sweeping powers to arrest and detain activists and otherwise clamp down severely on individual rights, De Klerk sought to remove what had been widely seen as a major obstacle to negotiations on the country's future. But his move nonetheless failed to immediately break the impasse with the African National Congress. A.N.C. spokesman Walter Sisulu called De Klerk's actions "half measures...
BRAKES. Standard brakes work much like the ones Italy's Tullio Campagnolo designed 40 years ago. To slow a bike, the rider squeezes handgrips, which are attached to cables that pull on caliper arms. The arms, in turn, clamp down on the wheel rims with rubber pads. The system is simple but doesn't always work, especially with heavy loads or on wet roads. After failed brakes sent him into a tree 20 years ago, William Mathauser, an aeronautical engineer from Anacortes, Wash., set out to improve the system. His hydraulic brake has just gone into full production...
...During Senate hearings in which he proposed a new regulatory group to clamp down on tobacco, Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy pointed out that % cigarettes have almost 2,000 times as much benzene, among other toxins, as the Perrier water recently recalled for contamination...