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While George Bush and Boris Yeltsin may be reducing their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, the arms race is certainly escalating in Boston. Forge those puny water pistols of the days past, now there's the Super Soaker...
Perhaps this year's hottest-selling summer fun item, the Super Soaker looks like a neon machine gun and can shoot a stream of water up to 50 feet; the largest size, Super Soaker 200, holds two liters of water...
...ESCALATION OF WATER WEAPONRY FROM squirt gun to Super Soaker reached its apotheosis last week when Richard Cook, 16, sprayed the wrong guy with a high- power water gun and ended up in a Harlem hospital with a real 9-mm bullet lodged in his back. The new generation of water weapons, with their bulbous tanks and high-pressure air pumps, splash so hard, squirt so far and are so wildly popular (Larami's Super Soaker is the fastest-selling summer toy in the U.S. for the second year in a row) that some public officials fear the summer...
After I left that day, my clothes and bedding were confiscated. Someone in the super's office told me I could reclaim them by surrendering my keys. If I was caught in my room again, they said, they would change the locks...
This did not surprise me. I didn't think staying past deadline was a big deal, but I was in fact breaking College rules. The super was just doing...