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...fascination. Ladies followed every detail in the penny dreadfuls and were seen battling for tickets outside the courtroom. Victorian Novelist Eliza Stephenson observed that "women of family and position, women who pride themselves upon the delicacy of their sensibilities, who would go into hysterics if the drowning of a litter of kittens were mentioned in their hearing-such women can sit for hours listening to the details of a cold-blooded murder...
...mules," or couriers. Sometimes the dope is buried in otherwise legitimate shipments. The drugs also move by air and sea, but it is hazardous to fly into any of 1,800 makeshift landing strips that have been dug out of the mountains. At least 50 hulks of wrecked airplanes litter the region; most crashed because they were overloaded, although locals like to joke that the pilots were overcome by the aroma of the marijuana they were transporting...
...misnamed tin can, symbol of Americans' compulsion to litter, took on a new kind of emblematic role last week. In a rare display of Government-industry amity, U.S. Steel Corp. announced that it will raise the price of the tin-plated steel used to make most beer, vegetable and fruit cans by an average of 4.8%, and the White House publicly bestowed its blessing on the increase as a relatively moderate one. More important, TIME has learned that the Carter Administration got U.S. Steel to shave down the increase as a result of private talks that constituted a model...
...conserve energy. Maryland woods were sprinkled with thousands of dead birds, which were unable to penetrate the icy snow to reach food. Stores were running out of rock salt to melt ice, but elderly women found a substitute to steady their steps on sidewalks: a scattering of kitty litter. In Aston Township, Pa., Ned Oppelt, 24, decided that it was too cold to risk a long walk home from a party, crawled into a Laundromat's king-sized clothes dryer-still cozy and warm from the day's tumbling -and slept the night through. Fortunately, no early arrival...
...Oregon officials insist that the state's three-year-old ban on no deposit-no return containers has significantly thwarted litter bugs, and a similar law in Vermont reduced can and bottle litter on the highways by 76% during the first year it was in effect, cutting cleanup costs...