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...content nationwide--stricter than the .10 standard in 34 states. The liquor lobby long played on the fear that .08 would mean social drinkers who've had a few after work would all fail the Breathalizer. But research shows you can drink yourself silly before reaching .08: a 170-lb. man can guzzle four martinis inside an hour on an empty stomach before he gets there. He may not be sloppy drunk, but who wants to run into this guy on the road? A quarter of the 17,000 drunk-driving deaths in 1996 happened at .08 or less; impairment...
Everyone in Cabrini-Green, it seems, knows Brother Bill, 63. He is a difficult man to overlook, his 5-ft. 11-in., 220-lb. frame clad in a trademark flowing, sky-blue cassock made from hundreds of tattered denim patches. That robe has become an understood symbol of peace and humility in this place with precious little of either. Fifty-three times, by his count, he has waded into gunfire in order to stop it. Fifty-three times, the gunfire has stopped. And 53 times, he has emerged unscathed...
...first it appeared to be wayward scraps of paper lying on the dock, but as the Coast Guard cutter Conifer left its moorings last week with the squirming body of a 31-ft., 19,200-lb. gray whale stretched across the width of the deck, a glint of light disclosed the discarded object's true identity: a paperback copy of Herman Melville's Moby Dick...
...EVERYDAY LIFE 81% of the population has a VCR in the home There are 2.3 TVs per household 20% of the U.S. is connected to the Internet lb. of sugar $0.43 dozen eggs $1.12 lb. of butter...
...EVERYDAY LIFE 1 in 7 homes had a bathtub 1 in 13 homes had a telephone Brownie camera $1 lb. of sugar 4[cents] dozen eggs 14[cents] lb. of butter 24[cents...