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...with prices at the pump dipping below 700 per gal., the economic incentive for a 55-m.p.h. limit is fading. In the West, state governments are joining individual drivers in rebelling against Washington's go-slow edict. Arizona, South Dakota and Nebraska have reduced fines for exceeding the speed limit to as little as $10. Those states, as well as North Dakota, Minnesota and Nevada, have passed laws eliminating penalty points for some speeding infractions. California has discussed raising the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. on highways in less populated areas...
...price is high for states that violate the speed limit. If more than 50% of a state's drivers exceed the 55-m.p.h. limit, the U.S. Department of Transportation can withhold up to 10% of that state's federal highway funds. The department monitors compliance electronically with subterranean sensors. For two years Arizona has not been in compliance, and stands to lose $5 million worth of highway funds so far; Vermont and Maryland have also failed to meet compliance standards, but are contesting federal methods for compiling speeding data...
Since outright repeal of the speed limit would mean a complete cutoff in federal highway grants, not even the most rebellious states have ever gone through with it. Nevada has come closest, with a new law that couples mandatory seat belts with a 70-m.p.h. speed limit that would take effect on July 1. But Robin Hollibird, a spokeswoman for the Nevada transportation department, believes the law will be over turned in short order. Nevadans, she says, just want to show Washington what they think of the 55-m.p.h. limit...
...seven crew members, survived the fireball loosed by the Jan. 28 shuttle explosion, and then dropped to the ocean in a nine-mile fall lasting three to four minutes. The photos, which NASA released last week under pressure from a presidential investigation commission, were taken by a high-speed telephoto tracking camera two miles from the launching pad. They show what appears to be an intact crew cabin sailing out and away from the blast, raising new questions about whether the astronauts could have survived had Challenger been equipped with parachutes or escape rockets. HEALTH Barring Aliens With AIDS...
...because he habitually began his seasons at about the same speed as the news departs Missouri, Leonard was never called to any All-Star games. Away at his quickest pace in May 1983, the invincible-looking pitcher with the pirate-red mustache was dispatching a routine strike to Cal Ripken of Baltimore when Leonard's left knee (his landing leg) imploded and he disappeared. As sport usually calculates these things, this scarcely qualified as tragedy, even when lengthy surgeries and lost summers followed one after the other. Besides the memory of nearly 2,000 honorable if unheralded innings, Leonard...