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...development got a lot of people talking about one of the fire service's least discussed secrets: firebugs in the firehouse. In the past year alone, firefighters have been accused in at least 10 states of setting blazes in homes, schools, public buildings and woods. In Lancaster, Pa., a fireman was sentenced to jail in February for eight cases of arson committed over a four-year period. In Long Island, N.Y., a fireman was arrested for burning his own firehouse...
...fulltime professionals. The rest are part-timers or volunteers who drift in and out of service, and it's from these shifting ranks that problem firefighters tend to arise. "We need to be careful not to put professional firefighters or even most volunteers into this category," warns former fireman Ken Cabe of the South Carolina Forestry Commission...
With the flames of the Middle East threatening to burn any bridge to peace, President Bush on Thursday dispatched Colin Powell to the region to play fireman. The President urged Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities reoccupied over the past week in response to a wave of suicide bombings that has killed more than 120 Israelis this year alone. He slammed Yasser Arafat for failing to fight terrorism and demanded that Palestinian leaders step forward and produce results once Israel moves back...
...Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember" ($9.95; 224pp.) Superman, trapped in the pages of a comicbook, laments his inability to "break free from the fictional pages where I live and breath...become real during times of crisis and right the wrongs of an unjust world." Left behind as a fireman rushes into the flames, he adds, " A world fortunately protected by heroes of its own." When Superman, who has entered into the (inter)national consciousness as an emblem of American strength and goodwill, modestly salutes real heroics it feels right...
...month and half after the disaster and has now gone into a third printing. It consists entirely of tableaus and portraits by Marvel's top talent past and present. Strangely reminiscent of Soviet-era monumentalism, most of the pages are like Alex Ross' sober cover depicting a fireman walking towards us, cradling a dark figure amidst a hellish glow of smoking ruins. There are a few Superheroes tossed in, usually to maudlin effect, as when a group of firefighters have Iron Man, Thor and Capt. America hovering over them, holding candles like Renaissance angels. "Heroes" works best as a document...