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...exactly. Like many African-American parents, Dais, an assistant vice president at Columbia University, was worried about the safety of his two sons. He gave them each the "police speech" when they got their learner's driving permits: If you get pulled over at night, turn on the interior light. Put your hands on the steering wheel. Don't make any sudden moves. "My younger son's initial response was, 'Why do I have to do that?'" says Dais. "But now he understands." Last summer Landon, then 17, was stopped while driving his father's Triumph sports car. The cops...
...next to her on a gray stoop. "I definitely want to make enough money to secure my future," she says, exhaling smoke from a Marlboro Light. "Rap is just a stepping stone. I want my own label and to watch other talent pay dues and suffer headaches like I used to." She laughs...
...some of the most chaotic spots of the postwar era--Northern Ireland, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon, Afghanistan--places where history always seems to finish its work in a room where there is human waste spilled across the concrete floor and blood smeared on the wall and the bare light bulb of reason is not much help or comfort...
...more graphic example is Union City, Ind., which does not observe daylight saving, and neighboring Union City, Ohio, which does. These two communities, both strapped for cash, tried to merge their municipal services. But they could not--just because of the time difference. Not since the abolition of the light brown M&M has an issue so divided a nation...
...essay called "Turkey vs. Eagle, McCauley Is My Beagle." For those who do not know, Franklin was a drinker. Nevertheless, his idea was put into practice during World War I, when Congress forced the clocks ahead an hour to save electricity that would have been used to light people's homes at night. After the war, the clocks didn't go back, the Germans regrouped, and those trenches became traffic nightmares. Not a good...