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Residents of arid Littlerock, Calif, (pop. 1,500), a farm community northeast of Los Angeles, have a choice of potential disasters. Would they rather risk being drowned, or drying up and blowing away? State officials want to drain the 521 million-gal, reservoir behind the nearby Littlerock Dam, whose water irrigates the peach and pear groves and melon fields that give the town what little prosperity it has. But the 53-year-old dam sits virtually atop the San Andreas Fault. Although the structure has survived severe tremors in the past, seismologists say it is located where the next...
BULLETIN: Noted Physical Fitness Enthusiast Farrah Fawcett-Majors will appear in the tenth, 20th and 30th paragraphs of this article, jogging nude around the Central Park Reservoir, pausing every 50 yards to give a demonstration of rope-skipping. Aerobics points will be awarded to readers...
BULLETIN: Actress and Fitness Enthusiast Farrah Fawcett-Majors has disappeared, under circumstances not yet explained, while warming up for her nude jog around the Central Park Reservoir. Details will follow when available...
BULLETIN: Actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors was kidnaped today by a large white bull as she prepared to jog nude around the Central Park Reservoir to popularize physical fitness. Amid a crackle of thunderbolts, the bull leaped an 8-ft. chain-link fence with Fawcett-Majors on its back, and swam off with her in the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Witnesses said that the animal bellowed several times in what seemed to be Greek. Park authorities were investigating the disappearance...
...Platform Bravo, a stilt-legged rig some 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of the well, pumping heavy mud down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew out the temporary plug. A few seconds later the well itself let go, sending a fountain...