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Alarmed BPA officials immediately ordered ground and helicopter surveillance of the more than 6,000 transmission towers that stand within a 50-mile radius of Portland. But the four states served by the Columbia River electro-grid contain some 62,500 towers, a fragile network that is impossible to protect completely. Once again an almost Mission: Impossible problem exposed the vulnerability to terrorism of complex industrial societies...
There is currently no statutory restriction on the number of signs per mile. But the present law gives the Department of Transportation the power to regulate, and the department permits not more than three signs for a scenic or historical attraction or a natural wonder within a 75-mile radius, and a maximum of one sign per mile. Thus the proposed "limit" of three per mile is an expansion. The bill throws the door open to a tremendous billboard proliferation by enlarging the present "informational" category...
...police rigorously monitored his activities after his release. "I had to report daily to the police, and could not leave the house between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. During the day, I could not go beyond a four-mile radius from my house. They followed friends who visited me and afterward raided their houses...
...that Temple (4-2) has a strong squad with its usual 6 ft. 10 in. 'er, center Joe Newman, and hot-shooting shrimps from local high schools Ricky Trudeau, John Kneib and Kevin Washington. They also have the fortune of playing in the Palestra. Everyone within a 200-mile radius of Philly knows that the only time a Big Five team (Temple, Villanova, LaSalle, St. Joseph's and Penn) drops one in the Palestra, it's only to a rival Philadelphia team...
...provides churches and schools with a chance to register a protest--which effectively kills a bar or restaurant's chances of getting a liquor license--against any establishment within a 900-foot radius which is considering serving liquor...