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Frustrated at doing police work by the book, detective Wade Preston likes to hark back to the cops he idolizes: "Baretta, Starsky and Hutch, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin -- those guys had fun!" His partner replies impatiently, "Those are TV cops. They're not real." Whines the TV junkie: "Who says everything has to be real...
...just heaps of clothing. Old fluorescent lights hang from exposed plumbing, and washing machines as big as cars emerge from a sea of garments. Nothing comes between you and the clothes. You can sit in the midst of them; big through them, tossing them over your back; or just wade through the stew of fabric until something catches your eye. Other customers are bent over the musty piles, searching, holding sweaters or blouses at arm's length, occasionally pausing to try one on. There are no dressing rooms, just a couple of mirrors propped up against bare walls. When...
...VETERAN SINGLES: Entrants must at least 60 years old. The men are chasing the Oldrich Trophy, with the Wade Award going to the top senior veteran, The women are after the Witte Award. The men's record is 20:45, and the best women's mark...
Should a woman lie to obtain an abortion? Norma McCorvey thought so when she cried rape 20 years ago. The ruse failed and she was forced to have the baby, but McCorvey became "Jane Roe," the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing reproductive freedom. Today, with the right to choose protected, the equal exercise of that right is in jeopardy, and important abortion proponents are urging women to follow McCorvey's example -- a strategy the Clinton Administration may eventually endorse, if only implicitly...
...after they lost the right to have two-year-old Tyler ever set foot in their home again, Sharon Bottoms and her lover April Wade sat on a couch beneath a framed handwritten copy of the vows of love and commitment that brought on all their grief. Decorated with a rose drawn by April and signed Oct. 27, 1992, the pledge reads, "With this ring, I give you my love forever. I promise to be faithful, honest and totally yours, for as long as I shall live . . . I ask that you take me as I will take you, to love...