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Meanwhile, conventional car theft has been exploding too. The motives tend to vary from city to city. Newark has a serious problem with joyriders, usually teenagers, who steal cars and perform "doughnuts," in which they lock the brakes, step on the gas, and send the car spinning in circles. Some do it in front of police cars, in the hopes of inspiring a chase. One night last November, three kids stole a new Honda, drove across a side street, hit a bump in the road, took off, sheared a power pole in half, took another pole out and brought...
...Alliance for Change, a newly-formed grassroots political organization hoping to break the Cambridge Civic Association's lock on local government, yesterday endorsed a slate of ten candidates for city council...
...hearings, however, also witnessed talk of forcing television manufacturers to place lock-out devices on all new TVs--the ongoing Congressional hearings on TV violence could lead to legislating that clamps down on broadcasters' freedom. For that reason alone, the otherwise ridiculous spectacle of Senator Paul Simon attempting to pin the savagery of guns and knives in the hands of Crips and Bloods on the likes of "MacGyver" and "G.I. Joe" should be taken seriously...
...course some Americans came to this conclusion well before last week's pronouncement from Washington. Gwen Grayson, a 34-year-old jewelry saleswoman from Dallas, used to hit the gym two hours a day for the weights and the aerobics, as if this regimen were a surefire lock on immortality. Now she has cut back to three workouts a week. Her conclusion: "Mental health suffers when you're in an obsessed state of mind...
Voss was attempting to climb stairs to lock an outside door when he fell...