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Peking's authorities have long frowned on dog owning. But over the past decade, says a resident, "the bored children of high officials started the dog craze, and slowly it became trendy." Less slowly, perhaps, dogs began defiling the capital's streets and unsettling its residents. "Dogs run about wildly, causing difficulties' for municipal sanitation," complained a health official. "There are even instances of hooligans training their pets to chase women, children and old people." Only circus troupes, scientific experimenters, police units and foreign residents, all of whom must pay $5 for vaccination and registration, will...
Surprisingly, the home-video craze has not yet reduced movie theater attendance, which is projected to increase 2% to 3% this year. In fact, Paramount has come up with a way to make cassette sales a boon to the box office. The Raiders tape contains tantalizing previews from a follow-up coming to theaters in May: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...mysteries these days appear in paperbacks or movies. The tale above scrolled up the screen of a personal computer. The story, titled Deadline, is part of the latest craze in home computing: programmed fiction. Machines that were used mainly for blasting aliens and calculating monthly budgets are now also churning through adventure tales and murder-mystery plots. "It's like reading a novel, only you are the protagonist," says Science-Fiction Writer Linda Bushyager. While arcade-style games like Pac Man are losing popularity, these complex programs are winning more and more fans. In Deadline, one of ten computer...
...That we stopped the pardon craze in this State, forced a few people to be hanged, and used the militia where it was necessary...
...many years watching Johnny Carson, or because my Fioruccis fit too tightly, or because of my pigpen in Weld, I saw only a void when I looked within. Ralph Waldo Emerson, had he shown up when I really needed him, would have set me straight by saying, "Do not craze yourself with thinking... Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find... without question... We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them," But, exasperated from trying too hard...