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...PERSIAN GULF: An oil embargo, and the chance to make money off it, makes strange bedfellows. Case in point: Former mortal enemies Iraq and Iran, now working together to smuggle oil out of Iraq in defiance of the UN ban. The U.S. Navy has been monitoring a fleet of Iraqi ships that they believe are loaded with diesel fuel that travel down Iran's coast and use the country's territorial waters, where U.S. ships can not go, as cover before offloading at ports in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Twice in recent weeks, U.S. Navy warships have been...
...just plain crazy. But Spoon and Stretch aren't your ideal victims. Their signature act of social aggression is to smoke cigarettes in government offices. Their way of bonding is for one to give the other a gut wound with a penknife. They're the Jerky Boys, playing mortal pranks on themselves...
...associated with dramatically increased life-spans is a worsening overpopulation problem. And how about conflicts between the young and the aged because the young will not be able to get jobs? Since anti-aging treatments will most probably be expensive, the gap between the (long-lived) rich and the (mortal) poor will widen further. Finally, if you live to be 120 years old, you will have to work the majority of those years in order to survive. Do you really want a job as a greeter at Wal-Mart when you're 115 years old? BOB CHAMBERS San Diego...
...defensive end duo of Grant Wistrom and Jared Tomich was enough to make any mortal quarterback's pants get a little heavier...
Amid the growing public concern over the mortal danger of air bags, it may be hard to imagine anyone's standing up and declaring that they are among the most effective safety devices ever developed for cars and trucks. Yet that is just what auto-safety experts like Ralph Hoar believe. "The debate over air bags has always been distorted," argues Hoar, a consultant in Arlington, Virginia. "Air bags have been sold as the silver bullet that will save you or the lead one that will kill you. They have been oversold and demonized...