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...Philadelphia after the riots to replace the truculent Daryl Gates, was intent on not repeating Gates' mistakes of last year, when police were deployed to riot zones too late and in insufficient numbers. In addition to providing his force with new gear, including bullet-resistant helmets, rubber bullets and spray cans of disabling gas, Williams brokered a mutual-aid pact with other Southern California cities. In the event of trouble, up to 20,000 out-of-town reinforcements could be moved...
...multivictim drive-by shootings. "The gang age is getting much younger," says Danny Hernandez, founder of the Hollenbeck Youth Center in the mostly Chicano Boyle Heights. "It used to be 17 or 18. Now it's 10-, 11- or 12-year-olds doing the triggering. And now they spray the areas...
...Nazi spray paintings weren't the only sign of trouble in Spain, either. Just as the HIV test looks for antibodies to the AIDS virus rather than for the virus itself. I detected a subterranean ideological war in some Spaniards' perception that rightist musings must be responded to in kind...
This year is not shaping up any better. In Corpus Christi, Texas, last month, arsonists burned from one of the city's abortion clinics, along with four neighboring businesses in the same building. A new tactic is to spray the interior of clinics with butyric acid, a chemical that ruins carpets and furnishings and leaves behind a revolting stench. During one night last week, five San Diego clinics were made a stinking mess. "It smells like rancid meat and a sewer together. It's awful," says Ashley Phillips, whose WomanCare Clinic was one of those attacked...
...dependency arises when patients stop using the sprays, vessels become dilated, causing more pollen than before to come in contact with IgE. This produces a reaction more violent than if no spray had been used...