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...community and responsibility, promotes order and good behavior among the campers through an incentive system based on soda. My efforts to impress upon the campers the importance of air rifle safety are rendered fruitless with their veins bathing their trigger fingers in pure Sunkist, digits which, in turn pump, out pounds of ordinance in the general direction of squirrels that stray near the range. Winslow’s quasi-senile and marginally coherent mutterings of, “Shoot to kill” as he walks by are less than propitious for one in my delicate situation: the unarmed authority...
...ground floor of the station, the red-and-white trucks gleam and pump diesel fumes into yellow hoses. The department has come a long way since the days of horse-drawn rescue trucks, but up a back set of stairs to the firefighter’s quarters, it often seems that little has changed. Green metal lockers fill one room, and beyond it scraggly mattresses rest on bed frames that Brogan, the lieutenant, jokes are remnants of World...
...Bogot's Palace of Justice, where 100 people, including eleven Supreme Court justices, died during a furious gun battle between troops and M-19 guerrillas. "The army lost no time in blowing up the Justice Palace," says a Bogot lawyer bitterly, "but they couldn't get a water pump to Armero to save the life of a little girl." Indeed, 13-year-old Omaira Sanchez had become a national hero for surviving for 60 hours while up to her neck in muddy water. A privately donated pump arrived shortly after the girl's heart finally gave...
...with prices at the pump dipping below 700 per gal., the economic incentive for a 55-m.p.h. limit is fading. In the West, state governments are joining individual drivers in rebelling against Washington's go-slow edict. Arizona, South Dakota and Nebraska have reduced fines for exceeding the speed limit to as little as $10. Those states, as well as North Dakota, Minnesota and Nevada, have passed laws eliminating penalty points for some speeding infractions. California has discussed raising the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. on highways in less populated areas...
...good news at the gas pump masked underlying trends that were less encouraging. The prices of non-energy items rose .3% in March. Medical costs led the way, with a 1% increase. Experts expect energy prices to flatten out soon and thus predict that inflation will rise from the grave. Washington Economist Michael Evans, for example, forecasts that consumer prices will rise at a 5% annual rate during the second half of 1986. INVESTING Distant Stocks, Instant Trades...