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...speed trap, I'm on the reverse of a slippery slope: Let's have more of it. If Acme in Connecticut can do this, why can't the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration get this in all cars? Road accidents kill 42,000 Americans a year. The device doesn't infringe on the innocent the way eavesdropping does. There's no downside for those driving at the speed limit, which could safely go up if there were universal enforcement rather than the spotty enforcement of an overtaxed highway patrol...
...will be very much organized." For their part, the rebels show even greater ignorance of the threat they face. RUF spokesman Gibril Massaquoi says a foreign aid agency conducted limited testing for HIV among rebel troops last year but revealed "only one lady who we were able to trap down." When told that nearly 25% of Sierra Leone's army recruits tested positive, he is dismissive. "Twenty-five persons is not many," he says, sitting outside his house in the RUF stronghold of Makeni. Not persons, percent. One in four. "You mean one in four in the SLA?" he asks...
...York Times Book Review, September, 1959)." Tarnapol's obsessive topic is his disastrous first marriage; that Roth had lived through such an experience was by then fairly common knowledge among his readers. By giving Tarnapol so many of his own biographical details, Roth seemed to be setting a trap for misinterpreters...
...same objectivity that allowed Boris to admire Barbara even as she took him apart also enables him to see that his career created an entity beyond himself - a creature of fame named Boris Becker - that threatens to trap him in a life of fraudulence. He can't decide if his life is a Wagnerian opera or a Beckett farce, so he takes himself too seriously and pokes fun at himself, often at the same time. He recently finished shooting a movie in Germany, playing himself. "Yeah, myself," he says. "Whatever Boris I'm supposed to be that...
...DADDY TRAP Fathers who don't live with their biological children are often labeled shirkers. The reality is that many are juggling multiple family obligations, concludes a study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The study found that half these dads have more than one set of children to take care of, emotionally and financially, and 24% have three or more groups of kids--whether biological or stepchildren--in their lives. On the whole, 78% of them pay child support, and 30% visit their children at least weekly...