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...First Lady draws her own share of fire. About 500 men, women and children braved a wet, bitter wind to protest her visit last month to Wausau, Wisconsin. BILL AND HILLARY, PREZ AND CO-PREZ OF SLEAZE, read many of the placards. In the middle of the crowd Constance Brockman, an apple-cheeked mother of two, talked about why she came out in such foul weather. Brockman, a 38-year-old homemaker, said she was worried about social ills -- crime and the lack of sexual abstinence among teenagers -- which she blames the Clinton Administration for exacerbating. "The country...
...wheel. Truckers are particularly vulnerable. A long-haul driver covering up to 4,000 miles in seven to 10 days often averages only two to four hours of sleep a night. "I've followed trucks that were weaving all over the road," says Corky Woodward, a driver out of Wausau, Wis. "You yell, blow your air horn and try to raise them on the CB radio. But sometimes they go in the ditch. You ask what happened, and they can't remember because they're so tired...
...founded a nonprofit organization called For Spacious Skies and had begun publishing a 32-page guide for teachers, outlining ways in which the sky can stimulate learning. Since then, 17,000 copies have been scooped up, and "sky awareness" has entered curriculums in school districts from Lubbock, Texas, to Wausau...
MEAT CUTTER Jim Zillman, of Wausau, Wisc., yesterday told 1.1 million Americans that he thinks prison inmates should help clean up this nation's roads...
...youngsters take equally to the machines. In a typical computer class, only about one in five students becomes seriously involved. Says Steven Scott, 16, of Wausau's West High: "Either you get the hang of it or you don't." Even so dedicated a computernik as Ridgewood's Nick Newman finds programming interesting but only for a purpose. His own goal is to apply his computer knowledge to a career in science or medicine...