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...city, Malle's film offers a catalogue of detailed horrors--I'm surprised the city's Board of Tourism didn't find some way to block its distribution. A pair of young people, Robert Joy as Joe and Hollis McLaren as the pregnant Chrissie, make their way down the highway towards this mecca of evil at the film's beginning, and you figure they are innocents who will be ground up by the Big City's hustlers and dealers. It turns out, though, that Joe is trying to sell a pound of cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop...
...killed on her way to meet a New York Times reporter. She had said she was bringing evidence which would prove that her employer, the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation, was manufacturing defective plutonium fuel rods, but her car went out of control on a lonely stretch of Oklahoman highway and the documents never arrived. Only a few days earlier, she had been contaminated by eating and inhaling plutonium, which AEC investigators concluded was deliberately placed in her apartment...
Focusing on such areas as nutrition and highway safety, Nader urged medical students in the audience to consider careers aimed at investigating the effects of harmful additives in food and at making highway travel safer...
...think it's fair to say that if just ten physicians back in the 1930s had spent their full time helping to engineer safer highways, we would have about one-fifth of the highway casualties we have today," Nader said, adding that another reason doctors are reluctant to research prevention in these areas stems from a desire not to confront big business...
...young woman was not unlike the fading Hawaiian afternoon: sunny and unhurried, going with the proverbial flow. A Finnish dental student halfway through a round-the-world vagabondage, she stood at the side of the oceanfront highway at Nanakuli Beach Park, waiting for a bus that would take her back to Honolulu. But she did not arrive at her hotel until late the next day. During the intervening hours she was raped repeatedly, a11 night long, by more than a dozen local punks, many of them stoned on marijuana. Hawaiians, especially those concerned with an enormous tourist industry, were already...