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...woman -- who begged for help on TV in finding her two sons she claimed had been kidnapped in a carjacking -- will be charged with their murder. Susan Smith set off a nationwide search after telling police that an armed man jumped into her car as she sat at a stoplight the night of Oct. 25. The man ordered her to drive several miles, then forced her out and took off with three-year-old Michael and 14-month old Alex still in their safety seats, she said. The ensuing search involved hundreds of volunteers and police. Smith...
...they have sunk. Every afternoon, Rumpf stands on the median of a busy Los Angeles intersection, holding a sign that declares him a homeless veteran who would be happy to work for money or food. Each day, motorists lock their doors as they brake for the nearby stoplight, and Rumpf hears the offensive click. He says that "things have changed" during his four years on the street. "The economy's part of it," he says quietly, "but people blame the homeless for everything -- drugs, crime, everything." Rumpf would like to tell everyone "the way it is out here." But these...
...will not shut down entire road systems so that I can drive from point A to point B without having to stop at a stoplight...
...Wells (Jeremy Irons), with help from a friendly baggage handler (Gerard Depardieu). In the dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, a powder-puff piece of surreal estate inspired by Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, reposes a fabulous Audio- Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes and bares claws nearly as long as Barbra Streisand's in The Prince of Tides. Kids love teasing the reptile; take them to see it. And lose them, if you care to, in Alice's Curious Labyrinth, a 400-yd. maze dominated by a tennis court-size Cheshire cat painted...
Life in Hogan's Alley (pop. 200) is exceedingly slow -- so slow, in fact, that there is no need for a stoplight on Main Street. On one recent morning, a Gomer Pyle look-alike loafed on a sidewalk outside the post office. Another resident slogged his way to the Pastime Bar for a morning pick...