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Americans may be united on many issues, but they certainly differ on how to manage their own health and safety. In a survey of more than 1,000 people in each of 32 states and the District of Columbia, taken in 1987 and released only last week, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found some vast disparities...
...After the spill, Hazelwood became a marked man. He flew home to Huntington Bay, shaved his beard to change his appearance, and was promptly arrested. In court an assistant district attorney called him "the architect of an American tragedy," and a state supreme court judge compared the damage from the spill to the destruction of Hiroshima. Hazelwood was held overnight in a lockup with more than 50 other prisoners, many of them accused or convicted murderers, armed robbers and drug dealers. When his cellmates learned that his bond had been set at $1 million (and bail at $500,000), they...
...District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell is known as a tough sentencer, but he turned surprisingly lenient last week. Though Gesell could have sent former Lieut. Colonel Oliver North to prison for ten years for his role in the Iran- contra affair, the judge declined to do so. Instead, after listening to North softly declare that he had grieved over his "mistakes," he handed North three suspended sentences, two years' probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours of community service in an antidrug program for inner-city youths. (The Navy promptly suspended North's $23,000-a-year pension...
...five buildings seized yesterday in the city's Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods have an estimated total value of $1 million to $2 million. The court-approved seizures prevent the buildings from being sold or altered pending the outcome of confiscation proceedings in U.S. District Court...
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not fight over drinking water as they rambled through the Lake District. In any case, the important thing to Toad was that walking put the mind in motion, and might even set poetry in motion. A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language...