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Driving upstate one afternoon, Eriksen, a soft-spoken, bearded 50-year-old, made several stops to appease residents. In Hope Township, he calmed Wayne Forte, whose English pointer, Bonnie, had tangled with a 300-lb. bear in the woods behind his house (the dog escaped unscathed). In Warren County, Eriksen surveyed John Suk's 140-acre cornfield, where another bear had chowed down, leaving a swath of husks in her wake...
...safety has been left in the hands of a glacially slow congressional committee (and the attentions of phone company lobbyists who see a considerable chunk of their clients' revenue disappear into thin air). One community has leapt to the defense of pedestrians and responsible drivers everywhere: On Friday, the township council of Marlboro, N.J., announced a ban on drivers' use of hand-held phones. And while the image of disapproving councilmembers might not inspire the fear and trembling required to convince errant drivers to pry their Nokias from their ears, perhaps the prospect of a $250 fine will...
Charles is throwing himself into another pioneering project: a radical way to meet Britain's need for new housing. Appalled by suburban developments made up of identical boxlike dwellings that eat into the countryside, the Prince is creating a model township called Poundbury on duchy land adjoining the town of Dorchester, south of Highgrove. The houses--220 so far, with an additional 2,280 planned--are not identical but come in different sizes and styles that pay homage to traditional English architecture and materials. Some are privately owned, others government subsidized. All are highly energy efficient. The town layout prefers...
...programmed to become a killer, cries, "Hell, hell!" People may say the same thing after last week's school shooting of a six-year-old girl by a six-year-old boy. On Tuesday the boy brought a pistol to an elementary school in Mount Morris Township, near Flint, Mich., and shot a classmate, Kayla Rolland, to death. He is too young to be charged with anything, but the county prosecutor has charged the man who left the loaded gun lying around with involuntary manslaughter, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and gross neglect--each of which...
...Reported by Julie Grace/Mount Morris Township, Jay Branegan/Washington and Victoria Rainert/New York