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...burgundy Cadillac races along the Mississippi highway, droplets of rain stipple the windshield and storm clouds signal rougher weather ahead. Dr. Tom Tucker, a circuit-riding abortion doctor, is on his car phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...
Three alternatives to the controversial Scheme Z highway project were unveiled at a press conference Friday where the Central Artery/Tunnel project also announced that drafts of environmental impact reports for each plan had been filed with the state...
...lawsuits by owners of GM trucks that have gas tanks mounted outside the frame, and which critics have said are therefore liable to explode in an accident, the company will distribute between 4.7 million and 6 million $1,000 certificates good for the purchase of its trucks. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is still seeking recall of the trucks, and personal-injury suits were not covered by the deal...
...fellow minkes would periodically dive down to gulp fish, then swim back to the surface to suck air through their blowhole -- for like all whales, minkes are air-breathing mammals. They followed an age-old migratory track, invisible to humans but as well marked as an interstate highway to the whales...
...carrying volunteers to work at a nearby sandbagging site. At Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, south of St. Louis, volunteer inmates from the Farmington Correctional Center heaved sandbags side by side with people from the neighborhood. "Man, these guys can throw sandbags like you wouldn't believe!" marveled Gerald Basler, a highway- maintenance worker. "Some of these guys can catch them in midair with one hand!" Ken Novak, who is serving eight years for first-degree assault, showed a reciprocal friendliness. "We had one lady who had tears in her eyes, she was so happy to see guys from prison coming...