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...planes have unloaded about 700,000 gal. of phosphate flame retardant on the fire, at a cost of nearly $4 million. To plot where and when the flames will strike next, experts use airborne sensors that detect where the fire is burning fastest and computers that analyze information about terrain and weather forecasts. With no rain in sight, the battle is expected to continue for many more days...
...incident was a new twist in one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S.: computer crime. It has grown from nothing 20 years ago to a $300 million annual racket today. With financial transfers increasingly taken over by electronic data-processing (E.D.P.) systems, the prospects for future swindles appear limitless. Says Philadelphia FBI Agent Michael Boyle: "This is the crime of the future...
Atop a bluff ten miles outside Sacramento sits California's opulent new Governor's mansion. When former Governor Ronald Reagan called for its construction a decade ago, he admonished his bureaucracy to design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...
...chemists, it is known as phencyclidine hydrochloride, but youngsters on this latest and fastest-spreading high know it as "angel dust," "rocket fuel" and "goon." The substance packs such an unpredictable wallop that the user may lapse into a coma, hallucinate or bristle with hostility. In California and elsewhere, use of the drug -especially among teen-agers-has reached epidemic proportions. It accounts for 10% of all drug-overdose cases in some Los Angeles hospitals. San Francisco authorities suspect that at least five murders in the past year involved users of the compound. First developed in the 1950s by Parke...
...unlike their predecessors -who sometimes administered more kindness than medical competence-F.P.s usually have the skills to match their versatility. Before they are certified by the American Board of Family Practice, the fastest growing U.S. specialty, F.P.s must pass tough exams. Beginning next year, all new family practitioners will also have to complete three-year residencies. Now available at more than 300 hospitals, these residencies expose the fledgling F.P.s to a wide range of training-from basics of surgery and cardiology to obstetrics. Every six years they will be re-examined to make sure they have kept up with...