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Madison has never drawn his .357 magnum service revolver or needed the 12-gauge in the cab of his pickup. But it could happen any time. Once a fellow wildlife officer approached the cabin of two suspected poachers near Colorado Springs, and narrowly escaped a hail of bullets that set his pickup on fire...
...truck cab skidded and broad-sided a taxi at yesterday afternoon on North Harvard St. outside the Business School Approximately 30 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled onto Anderson Road, which leads into the Business School, but on one was injured...
...truck driver, Robert P. Johnson of Allston, said. "An oil slick on the road caused my brakes to freeze," and made him slide across the road. A fuel drum under the cab was ruptured...
Carlo Rubbia was in a Milan cab, en route to Linate Airport last week and worrying about a possible Italian air-traffic controllers' strike. Suddenly the pop music on the taxi's radio was interrupted by a news bulletin: Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, his colleague at CERN, the great European nuclear research complex, had been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. At first the taxi driver did not believe his passenger's excited claims to be the man in the news. "But when I convinced him," Rubbia recalls, "he offered me a free ride...
...cab driver, unaware that newest Nobel laureate was riding in his taxi, turned to Rubbia and remarked how interesting it was that an Italian had won the prize...