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...popular culture, "they used an eight ball for a face, with large eyes and a line for a mouth with a shadow around it to represent oversized lips." The crude caricatures gave way to less offensive images during the civil rights movement. A black playmate, Franklin, joined the Peanuts gang in 1968; the Afro-wearing Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey in 1970. Subsidiary characters popped up in other strips. The movement got an even more important boost when editors drafted black cartoonists and illustrators such as Morrie Turner and Brumsic Brandon Jr., Barbara's father...
...your hand or have a dangerously high fever. The trauma center is designed for ultra-emergencies such as car accidents or head injuries--only the most life-threatening cases. Neither is meant to deliver babies or shelter the homeless. And neither can afford to put drug dealers and gang members back on the streets, only to lose another $100,000 the next time someone shoots them...
...while a money transfusion may tide these hospitals over until next year's gang warfare season, it will not even come close to solving the problems. For hospitals to keep taking emergency cases, the public has to start addressing a host of social ills it has ignored all-too-conveniently in the past...
...played Army's wishbone and we contained them," Neumann said. "I wouldn't say these guys are better than Army," We're going to know where they're going with the ball. We have to be gang-tackling them. After each play, it should be like a reunion...
...Navy prides itself on its fighting spirit, but down in San Diego they've got a little too much. Some sailors have apparently been joining Southern California gangs, prompting Admiral Robert Kelly to order an investigation. Crews from rival warships have brawled. In August a sailor was wounded in a drive-by shooting at an enlisted men's club. The Navy has asked San Diego police for help in identifying gang members...