Plain Thievery: Self-Service Stores and Shoplifting Costs
L A G argues modern self-service markets enable theft and drive higher prices as merchants offset losses. The piece cites an Orange County News report summarizing a Commercial Service Systems survey on shoplifting, its demographics, and the need for stronger merchant action to deter theft.
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Orange County News
California
Los Angeles
Orange
San Diego
Commercial Service Systems, Inc
Levodopa Shows Promise for Dystonia and Mn Poisoning
Levodopa dramatically aids two girls with dystonia musculorum deformans improving walking and speech. It also eases certain manganese poisoning symptoms in Chilean miners. A new high speed injector, designed by Canada NRC engineers, enhances port-wine birthmark pigment injection for experimental surgery at Toronto hospitals.
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National Research Council of Canada
Moral war needed to save humanity from pollution
The speaker argues that only a global crisis can unite nations against environmental destruction. Pollution could serve as the moral equivalent of war, demanding action to preserve the planet and humanity. Fear, not love, may spur cooperation, with a temporary truce to tackle environmental threats.
Universal man must lead to tame the world
The text argues pollution and man made pestilence of war demand a global cooperative response. It warns that worsening pollution from fuel combustion heat water discharges and chemical runoff could devastate marine life unless humanity rises to a universal, transcendent role beyond nations and ideologies.
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Universal Man
Hemlock Ad Fight Roils Congress Over Warnings
A battle in Congress pits anti hemlock safety advocates against industry backers led by Rep Willie Snavehart of Georgia. They challenge FCC plans to require TV ads to carry poison warnings, arguing stricter rules would devastate growers and that no direct link between drinking hemlock and death has been scientifically proven.
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Congress
Surgeon General
FCC
Willie Snavehart
Georgia
Snavehart
House
House Committee On
Snavehart Bill Fights Hemlock Drinking Rights Debate
Congressman Snavehart promotes a right to learn about drinking hemlock for youths while warning of a House Senate clash. Experts expect a tough floor fight over the liberty issue. A companion bill to continue a 3.7 million dollar annual subsidy to hemlock growers passes the chamber unanimously.
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America
Snavehart
House
Senate
Congress
Revolver Won the West But Air Conditioner Shaped Town
In Cambridge Massachusetts the Center for Short-lived Phenomena studies flying objects and the old town is described as run down. The passage notes a juke box fuse and a culture explosion with ambiguous references to life on other planets.
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Cambridge
Mass
College student and water skier share lake scene
Sheryl Johnson talks about college life and reading, noting the Malcolm X biography as a current favorite. John Warven, a construction worker, describes his water skiing at Elsinore, mentioning the lake is in good shape with only three boats recently.
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Sheryl Johnson
Malcolm X
John Warven
Elsinore
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Herman Makovitz
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Matt Johnson
Kelly Killion
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