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...outdoor venue behind the arts center at Hobart's historic Salamanca Place. Come Friday nights, it's packed with hundreds of people drinking, dancing and socializing to an ever-changing roster of bands. "We play, rain, hail or shine," says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding out hats and caps for "gold-coin donations" (small-denomination silver change is frowned upon). But what's really special is the diversity of the audience...
Working in the wee hours, small bands of radical activists and students had used wire snippers to sever coaxial and optical cables for signal, communication and computer systems at 24 locations in Tokyo, Osaka and five other cities. Using canisters of kerosene attached to crude timing devices, they also blew up or burned down cable connections. Thus, when railway officials tried to start the first trains of the day at 5 a.m., they found to their horror that neither signal lights nor rail switches were operating on 22 commuter lines. As a result, the system in Tokyo and Osaka remained...
...fresh ammunition for Deng's critics. They charge that Shenzhen is a brain drain on the rest of the country and aptly illustrates the "cultural pollution" they claim is emitted by the new reforms. To keep eager Chinese nonresidents out of the zone, the government has built a barbed-wire fence, complete with a patrol road and arc lamps, along Shenzhen's 53-mile border with Guangdong province...
...University of Miami Hurricanes represented just a small complication. While the local team was away in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl, its activities were so well chronicled in the Herald and News that the triangle seemed joined in Miami. Oklahoma and Miami stood 2-4 in the wire-service poll of the coaches, 3-2 in the competing view of the sporting press. Having already beaten Oklahoma, 27-14, the Hurricanes were poised to be affronted by only half a title should the Sooners defeat Penn State. Miami had to beat Tennessee, naturally, but the pregame talk dealt mostly...
...Veeck bought the minor league Milwaukee Brewers. He put on morning games for night workers, staged pig races and handed out outlandish door prizes, including a swaybacked horse. He installed a chicken-wire screen above the rightfield fence to turn opponent home runs into singles, then rolled it out of the way when the home team came up. The practice was banned after one day. In Cleveland he offered nursery care during games and staged a night honoring a fan who had written to ask why ballplayers always get the free cars and prizes. When the Indians started...