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...nearly 20 years since he was a high school speech coach and / creative-writing teacher, he has had time to learn, among other things, how to build his own house, overhaul VW engines in his living room, keep bees for honey and make his own bullets out of wheel weights. He grew up in Rutherford, N.J., disliking cities and laying a 75-trap line for muskrats down through what is now the Meadowlands. A wounded Korean War vet, he collects $333 a month veteran's compensation, and that, along with $1,200 he and Nora make each year selling their...
Feeling energized, Cosby returns from the track to his hotel at the wheel of a tan BMW. At a traffic light, a pair of adolescent girls stand rooted to the sidewalk, staring at Cosby. He mugs at them with that marvelously mobile mask of a face, flashing through half a dozen expressions, from idiocy to alarm, in as many seconds. The girls crack up, the light turns green and Cosby speeds away, chuckling with pleasure at his easy ability to make them laugh...
Wrapped in desert scarves against the blowing sand, some 2,000 Chadian troops raced into southern Libya aboard four-wheel-drive Toyota pickups mounted with machine guns. The raiders overran the Maaten es Sarra military base 60 miles inside Libya and demolished all the arms and aircraft they could find. Then, traveling without lights beneath the moon and stars, the troops sped home. It was the first time Chad had invaded Libya since their border conflict began 14 years ago. Officials in N'Djamena, Chad's capital, claimed that the attack killed 1,713 Libyans and destroyed 26 planes...
...easy availability of guns. There is also the copycat syndrome. "Even the most mild-mannered among us has fantasies of blowing away the guy who cuts in front of him," observes Dr. Martin Brenner, an Orange County stress specialist. His advice: "Just be a wimp behind the wheel...
Like other cities you mention in your article "Trapped Behind the Wheel," my former hometown, Washington, suffers from horrendous traffic jams ((LIVING, July 20)). The alternatives you offer commuters are to accept the situation or fight it with little chance of success. My advice: move to a small town. In my new hometown, Albion, Mich. (population approximately 10,000), a traffic jam occurs only when a train goes through, and even then the traffic is cleared in five minutes...