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Other security measures that have been tested include staff training in handling emergencies, patrols by highly visible guards and police vehicles, two-way intercom systems so that trouble can be reported instantly, and cash awards to students who report problems. Along with the usual fire drills, some schools in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland have scheduled "yellow-code alerts" for classes from kindergarten up. "We have to teach students to hit the deck when the bullets fly," explains one preparedness expert...
...usual, King's prose is fast, simple and sloppy. He has young Beaumont in 1960 use the current slang "get off on," meaning enjoy, and lets an elderly English professor say he will "loan" the hero a car (old pedants say "lend"). The climax has the brutish Stark absurdly trying to write another novel to keep his ectoplasm from sloughing away in rivulets of goo. Characterization is perfunctory, with an odd exception: Beaumont's eight- month-old twin babies are vividly and charmingly described. For King fans this may be the sort of thing that sustains the myth that...
Harvard football players hope they will be breaking the wishbone a week earlier than usual this year--not at the Thanksgiving dinner table but at the Yale Bowl...
...usual selling point of skin-care products is to protect against sun, wind and weather. Now trend-alert cosmetic companies hope to wage a profitable war against an additional foe: pollution. Chanel touts the ability of its new Prevention Serum (price: $50 for 1.35 oz.) to counteract "environmental impurities." Estee Lauder's Skin Defender lotion ($45 for 0.9 oz.) promises to shield against the "onslaught of irritants from pollution." The treatments typically contain sunscreen plus ingredients designed to neutralize so-called free radicals, the highly reactive molecules found in some air pollutants...
Candidates say this upped ante in the races next year has started the election cycle off earlier than usual...