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...victims have been of all races, all classes, all ages. This summer, in one eight-day period, four children were killed by stray gunshots as they played on the sidewalks, toddled in their grandmother's kitchens or slept soundly in their own beds. Six others have been wounded since late June. So many have died that a new slang term has been coined to describe them: "mushrooms," as vulnerable as tiny plants that spring up underfoot...
...little piece of New York City died with him. Rayvon was the fourth child to be killed by a stray gunshot in less than nine days and the second to perish within the safety of his own home. By the time he was buried last week, yet another child had been fatally shot and three more wounded. The slain children are called mushrooms in street lingo -- as vulnerable as plants underfoot. Their deaths have pushed New Yorkers, already reeling from a daunting inventory of urban ills, to a new depth of despair. "The job of taking back our streets requires...
...Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco set some new, supersophisticated computers to simulating the effects of nuclear blasts. One unexpected conclusion: the chemical explosives in a W-79 artillery shell could be detonated if the shell were struck in a single sensitive spot, perhaps by a stray bullet. One military official told the Washington Post, "For a while, we were also worried that these things might go off if they fell off the back of a truck." More than 300 of the shells were reportedly shipped to the U.S. from West Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea, where they...
Concord opened this weekend and showed some signs of this winter's beating. The greens were bumpy and there was stray water in the fairways...
...through her interaction with two men. It's hard to admire a woman character who so pathetically waits for one man to rescue her from the tyranny of another. Martha is the embodiment of the most basic and unflattering female stereotypes: she is "frigid" and servile, a "mother" to stray animals who is cannot care for herself or control her own destiny. Matthews valiantly tries to infuse her character with a little self-possessed dignity. She has trouble pulling it off, though, because her lines are feeble. "You make me want to laugh and cry at the same time," Martha...