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PROPOSITION 99 WAS A VITAL PART OF CALIFORNIA'S ATtempt to discourage smoking. Passed by health-conscious voters in 1988, the measure hiked cigarette taxes 25 cents a pack. A share of those revenues was earmarked for an antitobacco advertising campaign. The resulting ads won international acclaim and were credited with a 17% decline in the number of smokers in the state. But in January Governor Pete Wilson suspended the $16 million-dollar advertising campaign, citing a need for funds for other health projects. Last week a California state judge ordered Wilson to restore the campaign, saying that Proposition...
Americana: Harris' last meal was two large pizzas, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a six-pack of Pepsi, a bag of jelly beans, a pack of Camel cigarettes. Junk food was a sort of surreal motif in the case. In 1978 Harris murdered two teenage boys in order to steal their car for a bank robbery, and, having killed them, he finished the burgers they had been eating. (My theory is that Harris would be alive today if he had not eaten the burgers. That detail must have struck the jurors as the cool, novelistic touch of Satan...
...saying, he hauled out a fully packed parachute pack and started showing us the mechanical intricacies. Every system had a redundancy. There was even an electronic device to trigger the reserve if the jumper was falling too fast too close to the ground. I could experience total main canopy failure, pass out and survive easily...
...front runners do not acknowledge the cheering crowd. Conservative and calculating, they monitor their pace and fluid levels with the detachment of a boilerman checking fuel guages. Clumps of serious runners follow, dedicated amateurs clustered behind a pacer. Then the hump of the bell curve runs by, the anonymous pack one standard deviation from the mean. After that there are no more clumps but, rather, a constant stream, preventing you from crossing the street without careful timing and a quick dash...
...passed the Official YMCA Water Station at the five-mile mark. The team leader distributed advice and information, "Don't be disappointed if the elite runners don't take a cup from you. They have their own advance people with special solutions. You'll have enough business when the pack comes along, believe me. Those tables look full now buy you'll be surprised how fast those cups...