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...NEVER been in a state where backyard fireworks were legal. This summer I visited one long enough to fill my rental car trunk with three grocery bags full of explosives, only to drive back to one of the 13 states with a ban on all amateur pyrotechnics. More than just another brightly colored toy, fireworks from the first-line of defense against teenage terror...
...grounds go on even as in the political world. The Benjamin Harrison Quercus coccinea dropped a limb over the fence onto Pennsylvania Avenue the other night. Nobody was underneath, thank goodness. But be wary. A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies. Nonetheless, the trunk of that tree is still sturdy, and it will be around in one form or another many more years...
...need," says Schreiner, whose longest continuous stretch on wheels was 36 hours. His office supplies include five two-way radios, two cellular phones, one headset (so he can talk on radio shows while working on videotapes), two video cameras and three video recorders. That's not all. In the trunk Schreiner keeps batteries, lighting equipment, three still cameras, telephone books, road maps and a change of clothes...
...leave of absence from ABC, became a victim of Lebanese terrorists. On a scruffy seaside road, less than a mile from that same airport, Glass, 36, was ambushed by four carloads of bearded gunmen. After being struck with rifle butts, he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the assailants' autos. Dragged off with him was Ali Osseiran, 40, son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, and their bodyguard- | driver. Glass became the ninth U.S. citizen and 24th foreigner to be held hostage in Lebanon...
...school band and interminable shots of students horsing around for the camera. Others strive for more professionalism, with rock songs on the sound track and TV news-style interviews. This year's video for Eastwood High School in Pemberville, Ohio, opens with an old woman rummaging through a trunk in her dusty attic. Inside she finds a forgotten videocassette, which she pops into a VCR. The tape, of course, turns out to be Eastwood High's 1986-87 video...