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...seem just an amusing, if eccentric, tale. But others may find it all too familiar. If you need help, you can send me E-mail; I'm sure I won't be that far away from cyberspace. I still have to finish tuning up my brand-new Pentium 90 speedster with the 2-gigabyte SCSI drive, 32 megs of screaming RAM, a 17-in., 16.7 million color screen, 4x CD-ROM drive, V.34 superdata highway modem. But before taking it out for a spin...
Runaways who really don't want to be found quickly adopt street names, often such crude synonyms as Lunatic, Fury, Speedster or Dopey. "Never tell anybody anything, that's my rule," says a 16-year-old from Ukiah in northwestern California. The slim, blond youth -- call him Billy -- says he spent a year living in a stairwell near the Scientology center on Hollywood Boulevard after his parents kicked him out of the house: another story of drugs and alcohol and late-night fights. On a good day, Billy earns $10 panhandling; he stuffs the money in his shoe. That...
Tiger senior Wally Cheng stole the ball from a Harvard midfielder and passed it up to junior speedster Mike Busch. Busch raced up the left side of the field and crossed the ball high to the right side for a perfect header into the net by sophomore Jacob Dowden...
...Amtrak opened its new speedster to the public, the Association of American Railroads announced that in theory at least, freight railroads are willing to cooperate with Amtrak to help make widespread high-speed passenger rail travel a reality. Amtrak is already moving ahead. This summer the company plans to test out a German train that can go up to 185 m.p.h. Amtrak plans to have 26 high-speed trains running...
Some of that quickness is questionable for this weekend, as freshman speedster J.P. O'Connor may sit out the game with an injured foot. Definitely missing from the Tigers is senior bruiser Keith Merkler, their career-leading scorer against the Crimson...