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...reports that a big black kid (Bennett is 5 ft. 11 in., 260 lbs.) was arriving at drug night spots in a Rolls-Royce driven by a young Hispanic. This was a mistake Bennett repeated: he made himself too visible. He even drove up to a South Central car wash in his Mercedes-Benz to boast to bystanders, "I got more keys ((kilos of cocaine)) in my trunk than you all got clothes on your back...
...free, but getting into the country by land will not be a free ride much longer. Congress has given the Justice Department the right to start collecting tolls from automobiles entering the U.S. at various border checkpoints. An initial test will take place in March in Blaine, Wash.: for a one-time $25 fee, drivers will be allowed unlimited crossings in a special "express lane." Tolls of $2 a crossing will be tested later. Officials claim the tolls are needed to pay for more border agents and to improve facilities at the crowded checkpoints. Opponents have complained that poor...
BUSINESS: Dress it up as direct mail or denounce it as junk, Americans love the wash of third-class tidings as much as they say they hate...
...first hint that something was wrong came in August, when dead dolphins -- victims of pneumonia and liver damage -- began washing up on Mediterranean beaches near Valencia, Spain. But until the past few weeks, no one had | realized the extent of the disaster. When scientists from European countries began comparing notes, it suddenly became clear that some sort of epidemic was raging through the striped dolphin population of the western Mediterranean Sea. In France, where dead dolphins usually wash ashore at a rate of about 50 a year, 50 were discovered in a two-week period, and the toll in Spain...
...older inmates cannot abide the "crack kids," brassy, street-smart young women in their late teens and early 20s. Dolores Barnes, 52, a three-time inmate in New Jersey's Clinton prison, launches into a classic what's-the-matter-with-kids-today tirade: "They can't cook, clean, wash clothes or take care of themselves. They have no respect for their elders and no obligation to their kids." These "animalescents," as other prisoners sometimes call them, often squabble among themselves. "There are a lot of fights," says Rikers inmate Arlethea M., 18. "They throw the phone at each other...