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Jesse, 19, lives with his parents in North Cambridge. With unwashed brown hair tucked in a cap and pulled back in a pony tail, Jesse corroborated many of Izzy's statements...
...testing emissions from cars and light trucks by next July. That would bring to 177 the number of regions conducting such tests. And in about 80 metropolitan areas with the worst air problems -- home to more than 60 million automobiles -- the test will be made much tougher. The simple tail-pipe gauge that measures exhaust while the engine idles will be gone. The new test requires a high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates and brakes. Then it runs the material through computerized equipment so sensitive that millions...
...good reason to issue the new rules. More than 20 years after the government began requiring annual emissions tests for many cars, half of the smog and 90% of the carbon monoxide in the air still pours out of tail pipes; the rest comes mainly from the smokestacks of factories and oil refineries. The new regulations could reduce smog-producing emissions and carbon monoxide pollution from vehicles by 30% in many cities. But repairs to pass the test could cost drivers from $25 to $450, a stiff increase from the present average of $50 to $75. (Anyone whose car still...
...exalted common sense above what he called "law learning." He also accepted demagoguery and deception as required for political success, and he served several terms in Congress during the Jackson Administration. "I was cunning as a little red fox," Crockett wrote in his autobiography, "and wouldn't risk my tail in a 'committal trap.' " Too much noncommitment from Perot, though, could render him implausible as a President...
...German-born cabbie (Armin Mueller-Stahl); the blind Parisian (Beatrice Dalle) who, sigh, sees life more clearly than the African (Isaach De Bankole) in the front seat; the Finnish depressive (Matti Pellonpaa) who relates a you-think-you-got-troubles saga -- these are shaggy- dog stories without a tail. Or, really, a tale...