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...infinity of variations. "There is always the final escape--you can send yourself into Hyperspace." Arny's ship disappears in a flash of light. "But you don't know if you'll come back", he adds. "And if you do, it'll be in a totally random spot." Space War's cosmic overtones of that other world are only less intriguing than the mechanics of the game itself...
OSHA AS ESTABLISHED still might have served fairly and effectively to protect the workers for whose lives and health it was responsible. OSHA inspectors were empowered to visit workplaces without prior notice, making inspections in the event of an accident, the filing of a valid worker complaint, or at random. For each violation found, inspectors were required to hand out a citation, which was to be posted for three days or until the violation was corrected. For each citation issued, the inspector was required to propose a penalty (up to $1000 for non-willful violations) to be paid...
...severed leg of a sheep, with metal pipes he must have ripped out of the walls of stadium lavoratories, and with fruit canning equipment; at one match, angered by the disparaging remarks of fans who questioned his sportsmanship, he decided to inflict terror on his audience by perpetrating random violence, and deliberately crippled a sixty-four year-old veteran in a four-dollar seat. This man knows no mercy--he can't even speak English...
...surface, wrestling seems tawdry and cheap: a couple of overweight men (or women, or midgets) pretending to hurt each other, the crowd taking pleasure in their pain. But professional wrestling appeals to much more than the crowd's delight in random violence, since it shows not mere brutality but a struggle between the forces of good and evil. The program for the match makes it easy to tell one from the other--all the bad guys are listed in the left-hand column. But the crowd already knows most of the wrestlers from television interviews--Bruno, of course, is earnest...
Both the right and the left seem to be embracing random terror and Mafia-style vendetta. Recently, the mother, father and sister of a youth named Federico Guillermo Baez were abducted from their home in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, then later found dead. Their hands were cut off to delay identification. The next day the police announced that young Baez was the leader of a guerrilla squad that had killed an army colonel. The clear implication: right-wing forces had decided to avenge the officer's death by wiping out Baez's family...