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...still, blue morning air 150 ft. above the town of Fort Lupton, Colo., two men float in a hot-air balloon. One lashes a strong rubber cord to the midsection of the other, Fred Kaemerer, 23, a Denver engineer, who grimaces like a condemned man. When the countdown rings out -- "Three! Two! One!" -- Kaemerer swan-dives headfirst over the edge of the gondola. Although it lasts only seconds, the 60 m.p.h. plunge seems to take forever. But the real kick is yet to come. Just as Kaemerer hurtles to within a few feet of the earth and a terrifying impact...
...Willie Nelson is on the road again, it may be because he has no place else to go. Last week the Internal Revenue Service auctioned off two of the country singer's homes, taken as partial payment of back taxes and penalties. The agency sold Nelson's Evergreen, Colo., retreat for $650,000, and his ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas, went to Nelson supporter John Arens for $203,000. The IRS claims that Nelson owes the government a total of $16.7 million for failing to file tax returns from 1975 to 1977 and for taking invalid deductions. The singer...
...some U.S. school districts are trying a businesslike solution: warranties. For periods of one to three years, 68 schools in Prince George's County, Md.; Plymouth-Carver, Mass.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Montrose County, Colo.; Harlem, Ill.; and dozens of other districts guarantee defect-free graduates to prospective employers. These small districts may soon be joined by the nation's largest, New York City, where schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez has proposed a pilot program starting as early as this fall...
...proficiently, the school system will offer free remedial instruction, usually in adult- or evening-education classes. Most credentials, which vary from Prince George's wallet-size Guaranteed Employability Certificate to Plymouth- Carver's diploma-size guarantee, apply only to locally employed students. But at least one district -- Montrose County, Colo. -- plans eventually to vouch for its graduates statewide...
There are, however, niggling concerns. Skeptics are worried that the cost of re-educating hundreds of subpar graduates will burden weary teachers, not to mention the taxpayers who foot the bill for retraining. But to date, extra expenses have been minimal. Montrose County, Colo., has had 3 of 600 graduating students "returned" since it started issuing warranties in 1988. Other districts have had none...