Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...wanted to go pro, I'd have to make it thenumber one priority in my life," Callahan said."I'd have to work on my speed and gain 20 to 30pounds. Then I might get a shot...
Until last week, we never really cared. If the New Kids' "music" was a discordant juxtaposition of bad Air Supply and the Bee Gees on speed, that was their business. If picking up prepubescent groupies and siccing bodyguards on bar patrons seemed to be their idea of a social life, we figured that was a matter for the judicial system, not The Harvard Crimson Moral Police. And if they wanted to project a hypocritical holier-than-thou, just-say-no, nice-boy-next-door image to their adoring cult of 12-year-old girls, we weren't going to blow...
When Congress enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in 1970, federal prosecutors used it to attack organized crime. But Seal Beach, Calif., attorney Ernest J. Franceschi Jr. is suing the city of Huntington Beach, Calif., under the RICO statute for operating what he claims is an illegal speed trap. Franceschi charges that the city can't produce proof of a traffic-engineering survey justifying the use of radar on a busy stretch of road. He also says police have handed out about 100 tickets a day amounting to $20 million in fines over 10 years, and his class...
Angry police officials admit using radar but deny the speed-trap charge. If the class-action lawsuit is successful, the city will have to cough up the cash and the state will have to subtract at least one moving violation from the records of every driver nabbed along that stretch of the highway. "What can I tell you?" says Franceschi. "They got me three times in two years...
Neutrinos are the phantoms of the subatomic world. They seem to have no mass, may travel at the speed of light and are virtually impossible to detect. According to the standard theories of physics, these exotic particles are produced by various nuclear reactions. Quadrillions of neutrinos from the sun bombard the earth every second, yet most of them pass right through the planet without causing so much as a ripple...