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...simple," said Joe McIlvaine, vice president of baseball operations for the San Diego Padres. "Bobby Cox got beat over the head for four years as general manager while he was quietly drafting good, young left-handed pitchers. Suddenly, this year, they all came together. They added Otis Nixon, Terry Pendleton and Sid Bream, and when the good pitching kicked in, it had good defense behind...
...again encounter freely available sex and alcohol, will be put through a moral vaccination program that has been dubbed "libido re-entry." Forces leaving the area will be bombarded with a series of public-health messages emphasizing safe sex and responsible drinking habits. In Oceanside, Calif., near the Camp Pendleton Marine base, authorities will advise returning grunts about how they can avoid street scams. "We expect that every hooker and con artist who can get here will prey on these guys," says a spokesman, "because they've got all this money saved...
...business for sperm banks. Many couples decided to have the husbands' sperm frozen before the men went off to war, so that their legacy would endure even if they were injured or killed. The San Diego branch of the Fertility Center of California, not far from the Camp Pendleton Marine base, has set up accounts for 100 military couples over the past few months. But with so many troops shipped out, the pace has slowed. Explains a spokeswoman for the center: "There are very few young men left in town...
Least Bell's vireo A bird that nests on the banks of Southern California streams, its listing in 1987 was fiercely opposed by local developers. The Marine base at Camp Pendleton has been designated a critical habitat for the vireo...
...arrested him on the street the following day. He wasn't wearing colors; few members do so anymore, since gang emblems are as open an invitation to arrest as carrying a semiautomatic rifle. But just the fact that he was dressed in low-slung black trousers, Nikes and a Pendleton shirt gave him away...