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...violence was apparently touched off by the death earlier this month of two young men who were killed while being chased by police at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Relatives said the youths had been taking part in another form of automobile delinquency, "ram raiding," which involves driving stolen cars right into stores and then looting them...
...among other furniture items, the pool table Heffernan brought from home, a couple of couches, a table and a shelf. On the shelf sit two massive speakers (Jeffrey M. Peppercorn '92 is in a band.) Under the shelf are an assortment of kegs. On the wall is a ram's head (J.B. Baker '92 says his grandfather shot...
When it's time for a party, the furniture goes. The ram's head on the wall goes. Everything goes besides the pool table (which is carefully covered...
...collision with an icy comet? Rather small, but there are plenty of asteroids in the heavens capable of causing devastation. Astronomers have identified more than 130 asteroids whose paths could intersect earth's orbit. Consisting largely of rock or iron, some are over a mile wide and could ram the earth at 65,000 km (40,000 miles) per hour. The odds of a strike within the next 50 years are probably less than one in 10,000. But whenever it does happen, the explosion could dwarf a nuclear bomb blast...
...cool, dedicated efficiency. But with 8,300 officers serving an increasingly multiracial population of 3.4 million, the L.A.P.D. has the lowest officer-to-resident ratio of the nation's six largest police departments. To compensate, the L.A.P.D. pioneered the use of SWAT teams, helicopter pursuit and a motorized battering ram, tactics that differ markedly from the community-patrol approach many other cities have adopted...