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Monday morning I woke up late, burnt my toast, and dented my fender trying to get the car out of the garage. My windshield wipers wouldn't work, Iran declared war on the United States, and someone put corn starch in my Cremora...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Week That Was | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

Taxi Driver Marcus Barnard, on his way to visit his newborn son in the hospital, was shot through his windshield. He died instantly. A father and son emerged from a side road with two small girls. Ryan opened fire at the men, leaving the father dead in a puddle of blood. He emptied his gun into the car of a woman and her daughter, killing both. Abdul Khan, 84, was cut down in his garden, dying as his wife cradled his head. Francis Butler was killed while walking his dog. The savagery was as swift as it was deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...moment, though, "high noon" seems to be at hand anytime, anywhere. Trucker Carl Russell Miller, 27, of Long Beach, had merely stopped his six- wheeler to stretch at about 3 a.m., when a motorist shot out his windshield; flying glass cut Miller's face. Stephen Broderson, 19, said he had made "your normal, everyday lane change" on the San Diego Freeway, when the occupants of a Datsun King Cab pickup tried to force him off the road and fired two rifle bullets into the side of his car. According to police, Edward Petterez, 21, of South Gate, simply honked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highway To Homicide | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

Only 15 years ago, Mexico's Ciudad Juarez was little more than a depressed backwater of El Paso, Texas. Today things are, to put it mildly, different. Factories in booming Juarez (pop. 1.1 million) are assembling everything from computer keyboards to windshield wipers for companies throughout the U.S. Meanwhile, unemployment in El Paso (pop. 547,000), where oil refining and clothing are major industries, has risen from 17,500 in 1980 to nearly 23,000 in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yankee! Welcome to Mexico! | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...belts in airplanes. It's not as though the room between your seat and the seat in front of you allows you to move anywhere in the first place. Besides, why would you need a seat belt? In case of sudden stops? To prevent you from going through the windshield? In case of a head-on collision? To keep everybody's insurance rates lower? Or to keep you in your seat so you don't walk around the plane and try to hit on the stewardesses, or worse, ask for a free drink...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Plane Truth | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

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