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Jogging sucks. Every fall there are hundreds of joggers pounding the pavement and every winter those who start religiously fade out when the weather gets cold and midterms arrive...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Power-Lifting | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

...Warden) and the shenanigans they perpetrate to dominate the used car market in this small Southern California town. Due--understandably if you've seen How to Beat the High Cost of Living--to a slow economy, business is bad in both lots, which face off across a strip of pavement that serves as a demilitarized zone. Soon these good ol'boys are playing at war, and their tactics become increasingly destructive...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Two for the Road | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...will, that another writer has decided American popular culture is in retrograde. Giggle, if you must, at the thought of a 19-year-old yearning for the good old days. And then go fly a kite. Or soar up a chimney, or jump through a chalk painting on the pavement into a land of animation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bombs | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

...foremost black leaders, drove back to the Marriott Inn where he was staying in Fort Wayne, Ind. As he stepped from the fire-engine red Pontiac Grand Prix, a burst of rifle shots shattered the muggy night. Jordan slumped against the trunk of the car, then collapsed on the pavement, his head resting near the left taillight. He was alive, but he had been grievously wounded by two bullets from a .30-06 rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush in the Night | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...activity, from making speeches to occupying nuclear power plants to skywriting messages. At Seabrook, next week, it may mean joining the blockade effort, an attempt to block traffic on and off the site. The handbook suggestions for tactics sound vaguely menacing here too, however--hints for success ripping up pavement, driving spikes into the road, and parking old cars in the street to block traffic. "We should make every effort to be creative and effective, while minimizing the use of our bodies." Blocking roads with bodies would be more effective in gathering sympathy and showing commitment. Trucks will get through...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Turning the Other Cheek | 5/13/1980 | See Source »

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