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...showroom, where the most expensive models go for $50,000, are so sensitive to the region's economic trends that a few days of good news will generate a mini Porsche rally. On the other hand, downtime in the local semiconductor and computer industries leaves Young's salesmen spit-shining fenders...
...print was lifted from an automobile linked to the killer. At the urgent request of police, four NEC programmers worked all night to finish the job. The following day, after the fingerprint had been scanned and digitized, the computer compared it with 380,000 stored in its memory and spit out the names of the ten people whose prints most closely resembled it. At the top of the list, with a probability rating four times as high as that of the nearest contender, was Ramirez. Says Elton Johnson, NEC's West Coast manager: "We knew immediately that...
Several times during the past century China has absorbed outside influences only, in a convulsive fit, to spit them out again. In the mid-19th century, the fanatical Taiping rebels nearly overthrew the non-Chinese Manchu Dynasty with an eclectic ideology of primitive Communism and a wrathful Old Testament deity. In 1900, two years after the proclamation of Western-oriented reforms by the young Emperor Guang Xu, the Boxers, a peasant organization that aimed at ridding China of the presence and influence of Europeans, exploded in a burst of xenophobia, called for the ouster of all foreigners and fought...
...This isn't mass hysteria, it's frightened, unified parents," says Annette Maiorana, a Queens mother who kept her eight-year-old out of school last week. "In school, kids share their milk, they share sandwiches, they spit at each other. There's urine on the toilet seats. They chew on a pencil and give it to a friend. I have a little one ready to go to preschool, and it's frightening...
Marsee's horrible death is still an unusual occurrence, but his fondness for "smokeless tobacco" has become alarmingly widespread among American youth. Once associated with lumberjacks, laborers and juice-spitting hayseeds, smokeless tobacco includes both the rough-cut chewing variety (Red Man, Mail < Pouch and other brands, which are held in the cheek and occasionally munched) and finely ground moist snuff (Copenhagen, Skoal and the like, which are usually packed in between the lower lip and gum). In many states, it is illegal to sell tobacco of any sort to minors, but the laws are difficult to enforce. Teenage boys...