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There are now an estimated 20 million riders hitting the decks. Skateboarders speed and rumble all around the Picasso sculpture in downtown Chicago. They come from as far away as Scotland to maneuver Milwaukee's Turf Skateboard Park. Georgia's Savannah Slamma is an annual springtime ritual for boarders to show their stuff. Says Scott Oster, 18, a pro skater out of Los Angeles: "Kids are ripping all over...
...Like the skateboard and Hula-Hoop, California's fads inevitably migrate eastward. The latest, freeway shootings, appears to have faded on the West Coast but is all the rage in southern Illinois and is spreading to eastern Missouri. A recent rash of seemingly random events has left one person dead and one wounded. Outside Collinsville, Ill., shotgun fire struck a man in the chest and arm as he drove down Interstate 55. Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week...
...those compulsives are neither long-haired hippies nor pencil-thin nerds, as stereotypes might have. Every evening at Tommy's upperclassmen in tuxes share the machines with construction workers and skateboard punks. "The people who play the games come from a really wide socio-economic and age background." says Nathaniel A. Wice '89. "But they're pretty much male...
...DINOSAUR had been living in our suite for a week before I finally spoke to him. Our floater, a Cambridge skateboard punk--now withdrawn from Harvard to his native streets--had let the psuedo-prehistoric monster in and then disappeared home, leaving us trying desperately to ignore the spiky invader...
Eyeing his six foot, slamdance hardened frame, I modified my greeting. "So how come you've been living in our suite?" Swarming beer cans, skateboard parts, mangled hardcore tapes and ever-increasing mossy foliage were all part of the natural habitat the Dinosaur had erected around himself in our floater's room...