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...Five men opened fire on a group of 50 sleeping children, killing three, ages 11, 14 and 17, on the spot. Two more died in the hospital from gunshot wounds to the head. Two other boys were dragged into a car and shot, their bodies dumped a mile away. An eighth boy died five days later, never waking from a coma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio's Dead End Kids | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...Mississippi's torrential wake, communities across the Midwest came together to salvage the remains. On Sny Island, crowds of volunteers and National Guard members reinforced the 54-mile-long levee which alone is blocking out the swollen river in this region and protecting 110,000 acres of top agricultural land...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Playing the Politics of Re-Election | 8/3/1993 | See Source »

...bought a 1977 Buick a few years back that gets 14 miles to the gallon. If it gives up the ghost next year and you replace it with a 1985 model that gets 18 m.p.g., that's a 28% increase in fuel efficiency. They could hike the price of gas 28%, and it wouldn't cost you a penny more to drive a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: A Tax Increase You Can Avoid | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...paying vastly less for gas than our competitors (in Europe and Asia, gas goes for nearly $4 per gal.). For decades, the hike in the tax would be more or less canceled out by available improvements in fuel efficiency -- so it would cost no more to drive a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: A Tax Increase You Can Avoid | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...right, less), a 4.3 cents hike in the gas tax would add about 3% to the price. All you'd have to do to keep your cost of driving level would be to improve your gasoline efficiency 3% a year to keep pace. Buy a car that gets 23 miles to the gallon, say, instead of 20, and you've beaten the gas tax for five years. Uncle Sam raises his lousy $70 billion over those five years, but your cost of driving a mile rises not one thin dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: A Tax Increase You Can Avoid | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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