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City officials defend the ordinance as necessary to prevent collisions between pedestrians and bikers. It seems they believe that the danger posed to pedestrians by slow-moving, 50 pound bikes is much greater than the danger posed to bikers by fast-moving, 3000 pound cars. Not only does the ordinance put lives at risk, but it will annoy both bikers and drivers. In Harvard Square, traffic is often bumper-to-bumper and cars are always parked along the sides of streets, so bikers will often have no place to ride, giving students who live in the Quad nowhere...
LONDON: Flush from a $2,000 shopping spree, Los Angeles clothes designer Eileen Kadden says she was looking "classy and funky" when a Harrods security guard took offense at her 5'9", 196-pound figure and showed her the door. "It was complete discrimination against larger women," an indignant Kadden told The Times. "I was shocked and mortified." The 48-year-old Kadden, who at the time was sporting brown Lycra leggings and a loose, cactus-embroidered white shirt, dismisses as "fattism" the chic department store's response that her attire violated its strict code against extreme forms of dress...
...plea bargain. Michael Fortier faces up to 23 years in prison for federal charges that include failure to notify authorities of the bombing plot. Jurors today also saw the mangled rear axle from the Ryder rental truck that carried the explosives. An identification number, found on the 250-pound axle, was traced to a Ryder truck rented from a body shop in Junction City, Kansas. Employees there helped produced the sketches that led to McVeigh's arrest. Among other evidence introduced today: a crumpled business card with McVeigh's fingerprints from Paulsen's Military Supply in Wisconsin on which...
...Craig Button was in his A-10 Thunderbolt when it crashed in the Colorado Rockies. Wreckage of the plane and fragments of body parts were found Friday in the rugged mountains south of I-70, ending a three-week search. National Guardsmen will continue looking for the four 500-pound bombs the plane was carrying. But officials say that deep snow may have erased so many clues that they may never know why Button's plane left formation to fly 800 miles off course before crashing...
PHOENIX: Rescuers are trying to make their way through fresh snow to the possible site of a crash of a missing Air Force military jet. Ever since Captain Craig Button's A-10 attack jet broke formation and disappeared over the Colorado mountains last week, loaded with 450-pound bombs, speculation has had it that the 32- year old pilot might have stolen the plane. New reports from skiers near New York mountain in the Rockies that they saw a black cloud and heard a loud noise are fueling rumors that the plane crashed there. The Air Force theory that...