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California's department of transportation is testing a GPS dispatching system on a tow-truck fleet in the San Francisco Bay area. University of Wyoming scientists plan to use GPS technology in a tracking collar for studying the migration patterns of elk. And by combining GPS with computerized maps, engineers are developing electronic road atlases that, installed in car dashboards, could one day enable a visiting motorist to negotiate Los Angeles' freeways without ever making a wrong turn...
...possibility of obtaining treble damages and the enormous leverage of labeling an opponent a "racketeer." The result has been a widening array of civil RICO lawsuits, from common commercial litigation to provocative political disputes. The law has been invoked by victims of sexual harassment against their bosses, by tow-truck drivers against local sheriffs and by whistle-blowers against their employers. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court upheld the use of RICO by a Philadelphia abortion clinic against 26 right-to-lifers who forced their way into the building, castigated patients, knocked down workers and damaged equipment...
Often the coroner is a funeral-home director and sometimes even a tow-truck operator, whose primary ability is transporting bodies. The coroner frequently hires hospital pathologists to do the autopsy. Those unfamiliar with signs of violence may confuse gunshot entrance and exit wounds or may be unable to tell whether a fractured skull was caused by a fall or a blow. Or they may ignore important evidence, such as the contents of a victim's stomach or hairs and fibers left on clothing or skin...
...easy to see why. After all, the shuttle is simply a glorified tow-truck, carting satellites into space. The shuttle was never meant to be exciting--it was designed as a less expensive method for placing military and communications satellites in orbit...
There is only one thing worse than having a car towed away for parking violations: getting the automobile back after it has been taken by police. The process can consume an entire day and involve almost as much hassle and humbling as being drummed out of the regiment. Endless hours must be spent in lines leading to sometimes abusive traffic-court clerks who treat parking offenders as if they were homicide suspects. Policemen and judges often heap scorn on a miscreant. Tow-truck operators can be just as surly...