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...limited. Prize Frize of Palm Springs, Calif., last week began selling an automated dispenser of fresh-cooked French fries. For 75 cents or $1, it adds water to a dehydrated potato concentrate, forms the mix into fries, plops them into hot oil, and in one minute delivers a 4-oz. serving...
...major cases just two days apart, Fundamentalist Christians were dismayed to see federal appeals courts throw out earlier rulings against public school textbooks. As a result, pupils returning to reading classes in Hawkins County, Tenn., can still be required to tackle the themes in The Wizard of Oz and The Diary of Anne Frank, among a * host of other books deemed "godless" by a group of parents. And in Alabama, teachers will still be using 44 texts that Fundamentalists had sued to remove for promoting the "religion" of secular humanism...
...drug abusers, though most of them are small and poorly funded. In San Francisco, Vicente ("Chente") Matus, an ex-addict who now works for Midcity Consortium to Combat AIDS, ambles along the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure to the virus. While the rate of new infection among...
BORN. To Dick Smothers, 47, perennial straight man of the comic Smothers Brothers, and his wife Lorraine Martin, 28: their first child (he has three from a previous marriage); in Las Vegas, where the brothers are performing. Name: Sarah Alexandra. Weight: 6 lbs. 15 oz...
...first time this decade, U.S. consumption of silver has outstripped production, pushing prices from a $5-to-$6 range past $7 an oz. Meanwhile, mutual funds specializing in North American gold, such as Van Eck Gold/Resources and U.S. New Prospector, benefited from money fleeing South African investments. The extended bull market in stocks has also played a role, as investors have taken profits and sought safe alternatives...