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Private First Class Alejandro (Alex) Muñoz was going to be home in New Mexico for Christmas. After the Sunday bomb attack, his parents and eight siblings despaired of ever seeing him again. But then, unlike most of the families of troops who had been billeted at the destroyed building, Jesus and Manuela Muñoz got good news from the Government. On Monday, an aide in the Capitol Hill office of one of New Mexico's Senators phoned and said that Alex was alive. "We jumped up and down hugging each other," says his father, a machine...
Alex Muñoz, 20, was born in Mexico, but like his parents, who moved to the States in 1968, he was a permanent legal resident in the U.S. Since 1974 the family has lived in the small (some 65 homes) company town called simply Chaco Plant, adjacent to the gas plant, on the gorgeous high plains of northwest New Mexico. The land is desolate and vast-Bloomfield High School, Alex's old school, is 21 miles distant-but the family is warm and close...
When students in Chemistry 5a picked up their handouts in class last Wednesday, they expected the usual assortment of problems they had been working on all year. Instead, they were surprised with questions such as "Hiven the molecular and empirical formulas for all the chemicals in a 4 oz, Twinkie...
...attack and the Whopper whim, happily surrender to the artery-clogging, waist-expanding pleasures of fast food. But for diet-conscious consumers in particular, a megaburger binge provokes guilt feelings. Reason: the grab-a-bite meal of a quarter-pound cheeseburger, French fries and 16-oz. cola typically contains 1,070 calories. Since an average 170-lb. officeworker must consume fewer than 2,900 calories a day in order to lose weight, a trip to the burger stand does not leave much room for breakfast and dinner...
...against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire? A universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and almost every western ever screened...