Word: jerseyed
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David Miller, a student at Rutgers, "didn't think it could happen." When his roommate called the police to report a burglary in their New Jersey house, Miller's budding cannabis plants were in plain view. Said he: "I know more people who smoke pot than smoke cigarettes." The police, when they arrived, were less blase. They arrested and handcuffed his roommate on the spot. Miller later pleaded guilty to charges of possession in order to clear his roommate's name and challenge the constitutionality of the police search...
...police persist in arresting people for a crime that is widely viewed as victimless and rarely punished by more than a fine? Captain Joseph Craparotta, supervisor of the New Jersey narcotics bureau, answers, "We do not distinguish among drugs. We do our jobs." Indeed, many narcotics officers in states that do differentiate between hard and soft drugs wish the law did not. Sergeant Eugene Rudolph of the Los Angeles County sheriffs office complains that in his jurisdiction, marijuana is "almost as accepted as alcohol," and believes that "marijuana should be dealt with more harshly." He can take heart...
...some sections of Georgia and South Carolina, yellow pine trees seem to be growing much more slowly than they once did. In southern New Jersey, patches of pitch pines have stopped growing altogether. So have parcels of spruce trees on Whiteface Mountain in New York. On Camels Hump, a major peak in Vermont's Green Mountain range, and Mount Mitchell in North Carolina, the highest peak in the East, red spruce are losing their foliage and dying, leaving barren patches on the once lush slopes. Says Botanist Hub Vogelmann of the University of Vermont: "There are some pretty...
Feeling a little like that gong, the 64-year-old N.F.L. has been losing some rather choice material to the two-year-old spring league-from eminent Underclassmen Herschel Walker (newly renegotiated New Jersey Generals contract: $6 million for four years) and Marcus Dupree (New Orleans Breakers, $6 million for five years) to 1983 Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier (Pittsburgh Maulers, $3 million for three years) and Young, whose playing obligation is four years. A 6-ft. 1-in. lefthander, he passed for an average of 395 yds. per game last season. Cincinnati Bengals Assistant General Manager Mike Brown...
...that mood, Klosterman said, "I think we should move from the spring to the fall." But five relatively hale U.S.F.L. locales-Tampa Bay, Michigan, New Jersey, Denver and Philadelphia-are also N.F.L. territories. Three of the largest U.S.F.L. markets-Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles-have been flops. While a 62,300 house was counted the first week of this season in Birmingham, the Stallions might not wish to try Alabama and Auburn head on. Anyway, who would televise the games? Awaiting baseball and good weather, the U.S.F.L. has been achieving unspectacular rating shares, while ticket sales are down...