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Chaos reigned on St. Croix, as police and National Guard soldiers joined machete-armed mobs on a post-Hugo looting spree. Gunshots were fired, and ham radio operators heard reports that inmates had either escaped or been released because of prison damage and were looting...
...booths so far in New York City and Minnesota, and plans to distribute 1,000 more around the U.S. during the next year or so. Coming later this summer: Baby Takes. Proud parents in maternity wards at three Minneapolis hospitals will soon be able to introduce the newest ham in the family. Come on, kid, wave...
...others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing all sports now, and the Los Angeles Rams will confront the San Francisco 49ers there in August...
...most memorable pieces, Shinkaretsky posed as a worker in a sausage factory. Passing several indifferent guards, he walked out the factory gate and headed toward a hidden television camera. Pulling a large ham from under his coat, he told viewers, "You see how easy it is to steal here." After the report was aired, the factory tightened security...
...drugs, adolescents find it hard to get off. "People say, 'I'll just take them for three months until I get the look I want, and then I'll quit,' " explains Adam Frattasio, 26, of Weymouth, Mass., a former user. "It doesn't work that way." Bulging biceps and ham-hock thighs do a fast fade when the chemicals are halted. So do the feelings of being powerful and manly. Almost every user winds up back on the drugs. A self-image that relies on a steroid-soaked body may be difficult to change. Chamberlain has a friend...