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Henry Doss of Chicago kept a .38-cal. revolver for protection at the West Side gas station where he worked as an attendant. Early one Sunday morning, while attempting to thwart a robbery, he pulled the trigger and accidentally killed his 14-year-old son, who was wrestling with the intruder. The intruder was a 16-year-old girl who was packing her own .32-cal. pistol...
...fire only smoldered for lack of oxygen, but it did trigger fire alarms after the burglars had fled, revealing that they had got away with a record $4 million in virtually untraceable bills. In view of the immense fortune the thieves left behind, that sum, weighing perhaps 700 lbs., was presumably all they could conveniently carry...
...Westernized menu of meat and fats. Japanese women who emigrate to the U.S. have higher breast-cancer rates than those who remain in Japan. Their U.S.-born daughters have breast-cancer rates approaching those of American women in general. But how and why high-fat diets might trigger breast cancer remains a mystery...
...reports Schecter, sees the current energy crisis as a problem that demands the industrial nations enter "a new era of creativity and cooperation that will help the developing nations as well." If nothing is done and oil prices remain high, Kissinger fears, all debts will become worthless paper and trigger a widespread industrial collapse that would have a greater impact on the developing world than on industrial nations...
...said that the leading woman has achieved truly equal status with her male partner. To be sure, the girls are allowed to engage in potentially dangerous undercover work that the boys simply cannot manage-posing as streetwalkers, for instance. They are even permitted to pull a trigger now and then, though only if they come close to fainting when someone gets hurt in the gunplay...