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Such violence reflects to a large extent the jungle of the slums, for it is there that the schools with the worst problems are located. For an addict needing money for his next fix, a student with lunch money is an obvious target. Gang fights frequently spill over into school buildings. Vandalism alone costs schools $200 million a year nationally. Violent acts are often so seemingly meaningless that they defy reason. Outside Intermediate School 155 in New York's desolate South Bronx, a youngster was nearly stomped to death recently during an argument over a bottle of soda...
...hour. He is remembered as the "India Rubber Man," a 5-ft. 10-in., razzle-dazzle guard whose suicidal drives to the basket often sent him bouncing off the fieldhouse floor or flying into the seventh row of the Purdue band. Local legend has it that after one memorable spill, he popped in the winning basket while sitting down...
...flesh-presiding over it all like some claphantine idol Fellini lingers nostalgically over the bizarre figures of his youth. The inevitable bulging whores strut before an ogling crowd; gesticulating Italians gorge themselves at a gala outdoor banquet. The bordellos, churches, and cafes can't contain these Romans. and they spill out into the streets, faces twisted into the shapes of their grotesque histories...
...platform to sleep. Change Sampat Lokhande, a farm laborer, tells a familiar story: "The fields in my village had no water. I had to leave. How do I get food? Some of us beg. Some stay in front of grain shops and wait for the grain to spill. Then they scoop it up and hurry back here...
...hard trying to drill holes for the important heat-flow experiment-which had been inadvertently disconnected on the Apollo 16 mission-that his pulse climbed to 150 beats per minute. NASA doctors, monitoring his heartbeat, ordered him to rest. Coming to Cernan's aid, Schmitt took a dramatic spill as he tried to extract a balky core tube from the ground. All of the experiments were finally set up, but it was learned later that a key instrument-the surface gravimeter-had jammed. It was a bitter disappointment to scientists, who had hoped that the instrument would help determine...