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...Post decried Gourley's trash-can investigation as "indefensible-both as journalistic-practice and as civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push and probe the main characters in the story. Help them frame their answers. Ask leading questions like 'Do you ever go into the corner...
...caucus members were really impressed by the presidential candidates appearances at their national convention at the Boston Sheraton the last weekend in June. Some see it as a sign that the two-year-old caucus is beginning to be recognized by the political status quo. They figure that the candidates must think the caucus has some political punch if they took the trouble to show up at the convention. Others wonder whether the speeches were just a lot of empty words and political manipulation...
...Pilbara, drawn by the region's immense iron ore reserves and the increasing global demand for the metal. For most miners, the aim is to make money quickly and get out. But in one community the situation is different. Shay Gap, a tiny (pop. 862), two-year-old town 120 miles inland from Port Hedland on the Indian Ocean, is proving that even the harshest environment can be tamed...
...lies ahead in America. "We are getting bona fide refugees without anything or anybody," says INS Official Don Day at Pendleton. "I never know what will happen to me, only what has happened to me," mourned Hoan Lac, 39, a psychotherapist, who cried softly as she rocked her two-year-old child. "I have many friends in this country, but I have lost their addresses. I had to leave Viet Nam in 50 minutes." Pham An Thanh, 40, once a prosperous marketing manager for a paper and sugar distributing company in Viet Nam, fought back the tears as he noted...
...back up to 90% or more of the products that they recall for safety reasons; owners of such items are registered with doctors or manufacturers and are easy to locate. Automobile recalls are successful about 60% of the time. But among the products ordered recalled by the two-year-old Consumer Product Safety Commission-mostly items used around the home-an average of no more than 10% to 20% are ever returned by consumers. Although manufacturers, distributors and retailers are required to notify the CPSC as soon as they learn of a "substantial product hazard," recalls are no longer unusual...