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Dozens of others, suffering from shock and injury, milled around the tarmac. Some of the more seriously wounded lay on the pavement. As ambulances arrived, security personnel frantically waved them to a halt, then loaded them with the injured and dying. When rescue workers ran out of ambulances, they pressed pickup trucks into service, and these joined the long line of vehicles heading toward local hospitals...
...series that won two national awards for revealing disparate court sentencing of violent offenders. "If we did that story all by hand," says Steele, "we'd still be working on it." But, he cautions, "the computer does not take the place of traditional reporting, analysis or pavement pounding. It's just another tool...
...grunting "Ummm, yuk yuk, a fresh one, yuk yuk!" I was just about to try vomiting in self-defense when someone pre-empted me by incapacitating my assailant with a wide swing of one of her suede Nancy Sinatra boots. As he slumped forward, I fell safely to the pavement and ran as fast as I could...
...march winds past the White House--symbol of oppression. The marchers begin to sing something about Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell and garbage heaps in back alleys. Some women slam down red-painted coat hangers on the pavement. There is a huge pile of twisted wire in front of the White House...
...Sveavagen, Stockholm's well-lighted main thoroughfare, a dark- haired man wearing a blue ski jacket walked briskly up to the couple, pulled out a handgun and fired two shots at close range. A bullet struck the Prime Minister in the back, and he crumpled to the snow-covered pavement...