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BABY ON BOARD or CHILD ON BOARD, proclaim the yellow, diamond-shaped placards that adorn the rear windows of more and more cars across the U.S. Is this a parody of overprotective parenting? Not according to the thousands of folks who have been buying the signs for $2 to $3 each and consider them useful protection for their children. Made primarily by Safety First Inc. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., the signs are selling especially fast in traffic-choked metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Boston. But many drivers find the baby on board message annoying, and entrepreneurs with a sarcastic...
Bringing up the rear is the harried face of Ned, the section leader, who can be intimidated into agreeing with anything. He sits down meekly, and sets a little pile of papers in front...
...impaired workers. In those mishaps, 37 people were killed, 80 were injured, and more than $34 million worth of property was destroyed. In 1979, for instance, a Conrail employee was high on marijuana at the controls of a locomotive when he missed a stop signal and crashed into the rear of another train at Royersford, Pa. The accident killed two people and caused damages amounting...
...Enraged by what she considered misinformation in other exercise books, she spent two years writing her own. Pinckney contends that most exercises do not reach far enough into muscles, and she has developed a combination of stretching and deep contractions aimed particularly at tightening the stomach and lifting the rear. She eschews aerobics, preferring many repetitions of gentle, nonjarring movements. Barbra Streisand was sold and wrote Pinckney, "Thanks for teaching me how to keep...
...acting administrator William Graham ordered the immediate transfer of Moore to head the Johnson Space Center. Although the move had been in the works before the Challenger disaster, the speedy transfer permitted Graham to bring in a new and wholly untarnished leader for the shuttle program. He is Rear Admiral Richard Truly, 48, who had spent 14 years as a NASA astronaut and whose last duty before leaving the agency in 1983 was to command a flight of the Challenger. Departing from his post as head of the Naval Space Command, Truly vowed last week to "find the cause...