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...traversed crazily five traffic lanes, crashed broadside into his pickup and gave him the ride of his life. Cutlip, 36, a marble mason from nearby Irvine, found himself strapped upside down as the truck skidded on its roof at 60 m.p.h., sparks flying past his head like an acetylene shower in a metal shop. "That's it," he announced to his wife that night. "That's the clincher...
Students of the American character will find plenty to chew on here, since the intrusive survey asks its recipients how old they were when they first made love (51% were under 18); whether they look behind the shower curtain or door when using someone else's bathroom (7% do); whether, if they found a diamond ring, they would attempt to locate the owner (79% would); and whether they eat corn on the cob side to side or in circles (for those who can't wait to find out, fully 80% eat it in circles...
...trial want for drama. Bakker was led away for psychiatric evaluation, one witness collapsed, and Hurricane Hugo interrupted the proceedings. The usual details emerged about Bakker's lavish spending habits (motorized bedroom draperies, a $500 shower curtain). The prosecution's star witness turned out to be Bakker himself. Jurors endured eight hours of videotape showing his histrionic money pitches and then heard the ex-preacher describe himself on the witness stand as a "minister of the gospel," not a "professional businessman...
...begins at 5 a.m., when correctional officer Robert Richards mashes down on a bank of toggle switches, unlocking the cell doors. "On line, on line, let's go!" he shouts, as bleary-eyed inmates appear at attention in the doorways. Then there is cell clean-up, a shower and marching off to breakfast. Any inmate who deviates even slightly from the prescribed regimentation is ordered to drop to the ground and "give me 50" -- meaning 50 push...
...patented fuzzy auto transmission and antiskid braking , systems. Yamaichi Securities has introduced a fuzzy stock-market investment program for signaling shifts in market sentiment. Canon is working on a fuzzy auto-focus camera. Matsushita has delivered a fuzzy automobile-traffic controller, and is about to unveil a fuzzy shower system that adjusts to changes in water temperature to prevent morning scaldings. And in the strongest endorsement of the technology to date, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry opened the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research in Yokohama and called for funding of some $34 million over the next...