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That long taxicab ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas apparently convinced Buford Furrow that running was useless ?- which was 275 miles too late for postal worker Joseph Ileto. But because he is dead, Ileto is now authorities? straightest route to justice. Furrow has been charged with -- and reportedly has confessed to -? the killing of Ileto, along with those five counts of attempted murder, and prosecutors could seek the death penalty. Yet to a shocked public, and possibly to L.A. prosecutors seeking closure, the trial of Buford Furrow will be about hate. The connections to the white-supremacist, anti-semitic...
...pursuit of those ambitious objectives, however, not every offsite is worth a company's time and money. It's useless "to put employees out in some wilderness area and say, 'Well, no one got eaten by a bear,'" says Tom Zimmerer, director of the Breech School of Business Administration at Drury College in Springfield, Mo. The formula for a good offsite is much more complicated and practical than that. Consider the following examples...
...though. Not anymore. It's a funny thing--from Lafayette Park, one need only walk about 50 feet to find a concrete building with a brass lintel reading UPI as clearly as the label on the Teletype machine. The building is almost as useless. Once employing more than a thousand reporters around the globe, today UPI's staff is scarcely more than 100. UPI staple Helen Thomas, the senior White House correspondent, nearly 80 years old herself, gets up to be at the White House at 5:30 in the morning, to write stories no one will read...
...There's no telltale rash, as occurs in Lyme disease. Nor is there an easy test for it. Doctors must rely on such circumstantial evidence as a low level of white blood cells and abnormal spots on those cells. And an antibiotic commonly prescribed for Lyme disease--amoxicillin--is useless for treating Ehrlichiosis. Fortunately, there's another drug, doxycycline, that does the trick. Left untreated, however, severe cases of the infection can kill in a few days...
...failed to mention Bush's stance on any issues. Why would voters want to select him over the other candidates? Your polls showed that 73% of those you asked want to know more about this candidate, but you did not supply the information. Without it, the article is relatively useless. EUNICE KASISKE Lugano, Switzerland...