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California, which leads the nation with 250,000 registered cycles, compiled a grisly record in 1965 with 263 fatal accidents (some involving more than one death) for motorcycles and 13 for scooters. Ironically, the accident rate is lower on California's roaring freeways than at the low speeds of snaking mountain roads or intersections of Los Angeles' labyrinthine streets. In New York City, the very density of traffic slows cycles to a crawl and lowers the accident rate still further. Wet pavements are even worse on two wheels than on four: San Francisco makes its motorcycle cops dismount...
...free-speech protection of the First Amendment whenever (among other things) it clearly affronts "contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters." Because obscenity is a federal constitutional issue, adds the court, those standards must be national rather than local. Does this really tell lower courts how to decide obscenity cases...
...tightly written opinion, which is rare in such lower courts, Judge Greene has just acquitted all twelve defendants. A judge cannot decide obscenity cases merely upon "his own predilections and prejudices," he said. "When a judge condemns without evidence, he is acting not as a court of law but as a censor. I decline that role." Holding that the burden of proof in obscenity cases was still fully upon the prosecutor, Judge Greene dismissed all charges because "the prosecutor failed in these cases to prove a vital element of the offenses...
...lotus' size made balance precarious, and its tenderness made walking painful. The withering of the foot caused a withering of the calf and sometimes dangerously distorted the curve of the spine and the position of vital organs. The Chinese believed, however, that by shifting muscular strain from the lower leg to the hip region, the process considerably increased the size of a woman's thighs and buttocks and permanently strengthened the pelvic muscles, alterations much appreciated by Chinese...
This continent theory may destroy the idea that the place to look for life on Mars is in the dark regions. Because water boils at a lower temperature at lower pressures, there is little chance that water could ever exist in the liquid form in the low-pressure dark areas. In the light areas. Pollack suggested, liquid water might exist for an hour or two a day. That becomes a more likely place to look for life...