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...Police officers approached a friend of mine as he walked back from Louie's to Mather last weekend. He was carrying alcohol in a plastic bag, so they asked to see his ID and took it," said Ron T. Mitra...
...says Larry Bledsoe. "It's a joke." Bledsoe, 45, worked in the mines of Logan County for 25 years until injuries ended his career. Bledsoe says that testing devices were routinely deployed in areas free of dust, far from where the miners worked. Some devices were even kept inside plastic bags and lunch pails to ensure clean samples...
Discovery Zone has sold 120 outlets in the past 14 months, boasting sandboxes full of brightly colored plastic spheres, mazes, mats to bounce on, obstacle courses, moonwalks, slides and mountains to climb. Now mega- franchiser McDonald's is getting into the act. The burger giant is test- marketing a new playground, Leaps & Bounds, in Naperville, Ill. Phys Kids of Wichita has opened one center and has plans to expand...
...play together for $4.95 per child, parents free. Fresh-faced "counselors," dressed in colorful sport pants and shirts, guide youngsters to appropriate play areas for differing age groups. Three-year-olds and younger can learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk...
Backstage, the legendary Cajun fiddler Dewey Balfa, 65, waits his turn to go on, a red plastic crawfish dangling from the neck of his violin. He speaks of the "great migration" -- the expulsion of the French Acadians from Canada in 1755 -- as if it happened yesterday. "What they brought here is still alive in our culture and our love for each other," he says. "I'm an American, but I don't want to lose my French identity...