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...been stealing cars since the age of 14," says Lindsay Stott Jr., an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the muscleman's operations. "He was proud of his expertise. He was very much in love with himself." Last year the feds and local police busted Wills' six- man, 14,000-sq.-ft. "chop shop" set in an industrial park in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. But, while all his cohorts were prosecuted, Wills fled after his arrest -- and remains at large. What has emerged of his saga illustrates how easy and lucrative it is to make a living abducting and dismembering automobiles in America...
Overpopulation was another problem. On the basis of data collected from about 20 sites, Culbert estimates that there were as many as 200 people per sq km in the southern lowlands of Central America. Says Culbert: "This is an astonishingly high figure; it ranks up there with the most heavily populated parts of the pre-industrial world. And the north may have been even more densely populated...
...week heavy rain returned to much of the area, causing still more flooding. "We are going to have another crest coming down," said Larry Crump, Army Corps of Engineers spokesman at Kansas City, Missouri. So far, the flood has killed at least 40 people, submerged 16,000 sq. mi. of farmland and caused $10 billion in damage...
...even with few or no additions, the Great Flood of '93 is already one of the all-time monsters. It might go down as the worst of all in the U.S. by many measures: height of flood crest, area inundated (close to 17,000 sq. mi., vs. 12,700 in the awesome flood of 1937 along many of the same rivers) and property damage. Government estimates skyrocketed in little more than a week from $500 million to as much as $8 billion, and the final tally might be higher still...
...most frenzied mine-is-bigger-than-yours competition is among pizza makers. Domino's claims the largest entry with its Dominator -- a 30-in.-long, 2.08-sq.-ft., 30-slice slab of dough, cheese and toppings. It's the first Domino's pizza that won't be delivered by the company's swift red-and-blue- uniformed workers; customers will have to cart the monster home themselves. Fighting it out for second place are Little Caesar's Big! Big! Cheese and Pizza Hut's Bigfoot, both roughly 2 sq. ft. Says Rob Doughty, a Pizza Hut vice president for marketing...