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Controversy over the high school reorganization comes as union members enter the sixth month of work without a contract. Initially, the two sides planned to talk about CRLS-related issues at a later date, separate from the main contract. But the main contract talks continue to drag on, under a mediator's watch...
...suspension and $20,000 fine Monday for his recent tirade against immigrants and minorities. And that's just in the last couple of days. Last month 23-year-old Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins was arrested for breaking and entering, while Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills killed himself drag-racing Porsches with a teammate...
DIED. BOBBY PHILLS, 30, Charlotte Hornets guard, when a drag race with a teammate ended in a collision; in Charlotte, N.C. A nine-year NBA veteran, he established the Bobby Phills Educational Foundation...
...smokers still believe they are "healthier" when they smoke Marlboro Lights as opposed to Reds? Because the Federal Trade Commission's cigarette machine, established when everyone smoked uniform, unfiltered cigarettes, puffs away on each cigarette with unwavering strength, ignoring the variations in modern smoking behaviors. When smokers drag on so-called "light" or "low-tar" cigarettes, the study concludes, they tend to pull more deeply and more often, overcompensating for the lower levels of chemicals in the cigarette - and sending a blast of toxins to their lungs...
John's febrile love and the mystery of Susan's subsequent (willing? unwilling?) redisappearance drive the novel's rather implausible plot, which relies too much on coincidence. But for those willing to surrender themselves to Coupland's inventively of-the-minute language ("You two are the most drag-and-click people I've ever met") and his ability to see beauty in the discards of our consumer and pop culture, there's plenty here to allow a pattern of static to resolve itself into the face of love...