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American tourists who defy the alarms are sometimes viewed at home as mad adventurers. "When I told my friends we were going to Israel, they said, 'What! Are you crazy?' " says Florida Dentist Selden Schwartzberg. "They're the ones who are crazy -- for staying at home." To date there have been no reports of injuries to tourists, and the Schwartzbergs are confident that their guide will keep them away from the trouble spots. "I've seen more crime in Hollywood, Fla., than I have seen in all of Israel," says Maureen. "American Jews should be ashamed to stay away...
High School Cheerleader Cheryl Pierson had often fantasized about having her father killed. Her resentment and rage came to a head one day in November 1985 when Pierson and Classmate Sean Pica, both then 16, were sitting in homeroom at Newfield High School in Selden, N.Y., discussing an article in a local paper about an abused wife who enlisted someone to murder her husband. Pierson wondered aloud who would be crazy enough to undertake such a deadly commission. Pica promptly said he would volunteer -- if the price was right. Three months later, as James Pierson, a 42-year-old electrician...
When William Selden, a former IBM executive, started his own data-processing firm in 1977, he ordered six Honeywell computers. The first one was delivered to his Rochester headquarters in the spring of 1978, but, says Selden, "it was two months late and dead on arrival." He spent two years trying to get the balky operating system of the computer to function while his infant firm ran up losses that totaled $1.2 million. Selden was forced to liquidate his business and sell the 200-year-old family farm to pay his debts. He is suing Honeywell for $6.4 million...
...Selden case is by no means unique. As computers proliferate, so, too, do public complaints. Buyers are angry about everything from improper installation and occasional malfunctions to system-wide failure. The victims range from a New Jersey warehouse owner, whose computer system muddled his inventory, to the state of Massachusetts, where 1,150 computers that were supposed to test auto emissions all malfunctioned on the same day because they had been programmed incorrectly...
Paul M. Sullivan, Viet Nam vet Selden...