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...without question, Arabs are murdered far more often than Jews. Torture of Arabs by Israeli authorities is also rampant. Just last week, an Arab prisoner, held without charge, died in an Israeli jail, even after complaining to an Israeli judge that he was being tortured...
...other colleges, crime is just as rampant. At Yale, one student has been shot dead on a campus that has come to resemble a firing range. At New York's City College last month, a combination basketball game and rap celebrity event ended when an out-of-control crowd crushed nine people to death...
...rampant paving of the countryside -- from parking lots to malls and office complexes -- has made deluges more dangerous by robbing the terrain of its natural ability to absorb rainwater. Water racing across concrete or asphalt travels up to 10 times as fast as it does across a meadow. Often it is funneled into streams and creeks too narrow, shallow and winding to accommodate the rushing runoff...
...their nuclear arsenal to Yeltsin's government. The danger would become greater still if military or right-wing coups overthrew the present Kremlin and republic leaders, as could happen if winter food and fuel shortages touch off street riots. Talk of just such a coup is rampant these days in Moscow...
Inflamed by tax squabbles, water fights and rampant north-south snobbery, Californians who can't get along often talk about cutting the state in half. Usually they imagine a line midway, somewhere around Monterey. But Stan Statham, a Republican assemblyman from far-north Redding, wants more radical surgery. He would draw the border above Sacramento for a new 51st state called Northern California. But that would leave most of the state's economic hubs -- including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley -- in the new state to the south. Hey Stan, whose side...