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Modesto, Calif., inspiration for hometown boy George Lucas' film American Graffiti, is putting the brakes on the weekend rite of cruising. Last week the city council voted to slap fines of $75 to $250 on teenage cruisers when traffic on the main drag, McHenry Avenue, goes into gridlock...
...down the four-mile strip, honking horns and whistling at the girls, since the 1950s. But with 5,000 cars choking the avenue on Friday and Saturday nights, rock throwing, fighting, drugs, drinking and backseat sex have replaced good old-fashioned gawking. Police say the motorized mayhem puts a drag on protecting the rest of Modesto. "I've seen them take weapons and drugs from the kids," said Mayor Carol Whiteside. Last fall there was even a gang-related shooting...
...case of nerves has been confined mostly to Tokyo, but the anxiety could prove contagious; in the interconnected global economy, a downturn in Japan would tend to drag down other countries as well. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average fell 37 points last week, to close at 2704.28, reflecting concern that bearish Japanese investors could pull back on their U.S. holdings. The Japanese Finance Minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, declared on Friday that he was "extremely concerned" about the drop of the Tokyo market and the yen, which has fallen 7% against the dollar since mid-February. At week...
Every day immigrants from Mexico and Central America seeking a better life flock to Quitman Street, the barrio's main drag. Most don't speak English, and many lack documentation. They are confused, afraid and poor: half the families earn less than $12,800 a year, and 19% are on welfare. More than one-third of the Northside's 13,500 residents are women able to bear children, but until last year, no one had mounted a committed effort to prevent unnecessary infant deaths. Then Joan Mahon appeared...
...with trouble swallowing, and he wondered if there was a better way to go. In this case it was not so much the physical pain of the cancer that plagued him; it was the mental burden of a lingering illness. "This long farewell performance gets to be a drag on people," the patient said. "It's just not the way you want to see yourself behaving. There's less dignity. Christ, everybody dies. Why does that always have to be the topic of conversation?" Dr. Buckner refused to help with a suicide. "It is reasonable to want to protect yourself...