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While CB "radiddio" is widely used by truckers and ordinary drivers to warn of speed traps ahead, the network is highly esteemed by highway patrols and police for its ever-increasing role in reporting accidents, crimes, stolen cars, fires, traffic tie-ups, even reckless drivers ("Harvey Wallbangers"). Several volunteer organizations of CBers have sprung up to monitor the air waves and provide round-the-clock emergency services. The biggest, called REACT (for Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Teams), claims more than 70,000 members in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, seven Canadian provinces and West Germany. Since its formation...
Tomorrow, the laxwomen will trek down Storrow Drive to play Boston University, looking for their first win. Saturday, the team will be on the highway again, but this time, their bearings will be to the north, where Dartmouth will host the laxwomen...
...times in Hillaur, a small village in her parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli. The country around her told the answer: acre after acre of sere, treeless, wind-whipped fields, most of which are worked by harijans (untouchables) who sharecrop but do not own the land. Long miles of highway are untarred. Few people can afford the 300 rupees ($33) needed to wire their homes for minimum lighting provided by two light bulbs. Electric irrigation pumps are rare, and even wells fitted with immemorial Persian wheels are few and far between...
...said he was still optimistic. "I was born left and I will die left," he said. "Wherever we of the left go in the world, we have friends," he said. I thought about that, and about other things, as the bus rumbled through the Santiago slums towards the highway heading north...
Instead, it was a shanked brake which caused Scott McNeely, Alex Vik, Randy Millen, and John Bartlett all of the trouble, as the foursome encountered an unexpected hazard (automobile) along the highway...