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...reputation for honesty that the shocker did not prevent his re-election to a record fifth term last month (though this time by a narrow margin), but he has resolved to exonerate himself. Bradley has appointed a commission to rewrite the city's ethics rules in a "clearer and cleaner" fashion, and last week told the city council, "While not a legal mistake, my decision to engage in outside employment was an error in judgment because of the possible perceptions it created; for that I accept responsibility. I assure you that this experience taught me a painful lesson...
...freshman shut down B.C. the rest of the game, aided by spectacular defensive play behind her. Shortstop Rachel Donaldson was a vacuum cleaner, robbing base hits deep into the hole as well as up the middle. In centerfield, Liz Crowley also made a huge play, gunning down a B.C. player at home plate...
...best antismog equipment available. But one of the plan's primary objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First, it imposes stricter emission standards and forces employers to encourage car pooling. Then it calls for conversion of most vehicles to methanol and other cleaner burning fuels. Finally, in a Buck Rogers phase that assumes rapid advances in fuel-cell technology, it calls for a massive switch to cars, buses and trucks powered by electricity...
...former resident puts it, "In L.A. the first question is not What do you do? but What do you drive?" Will Angelenos really trade their Ferraris for car pools and their fuel-injected Chevy V-8s for electric roadsters? That remains to be seen. "We're for cleaner air, for damn sure," says Robert Harnar, a public relations executive at Ford. "But the old adage is that people in L.A. want buses and mass transit so all these other guys will get off the freeway...
...company had hailed its product as the "most significant breakthrough in cigarette history." But after seven years of development at an estimated cost of more than $300 million and five months of test marketing, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco last week scrapped its Premier cigarette. Billed as a "cleaner smoke," Premier heated its tobacco instead of burning it. But the product tasted and smelled awful to most consumers...