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Practicing for Yugoslavia: In April an air force pilot training at the Warren Grove Bombing Range in New Jersey missed his target by a mile and a half; the missile landed in a state forest preserve and started a fire that burned more than 18 square miles.
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Two professors reported in March that they had conducted identical polls on ethical questions, one of graduate business students and the other of inmates at three midwestern prisons, with remarkably similar results. In fact, the prisoners were found more likely to be loyal to employers than the MBAs. And the San Diego Union-Tribune reported in April that 25 business-ethics students at San Diego State University flunked the course for cheating on an exam.
In Brooksville, Florida, Lucy Dover, 79, was knocked to the ground by a 15-pound red fox, breaking her hip. The fox continued to claw and bite Dover until she grabbed its head and tail and held it at bay for 12 hours until her landlord happened by and rescued her.
In April police in Springfield, Illinois, identified a 27-year-old resident as the “sock man.” They say he approached two women and promised them $100 each if they would go home, get some of their socks, and leave them for him at designated points. One took him up on the offer, but he reneged on the payment. Later the man called the State Journal-Register and promised to cease his activities if the paper would agree not to print his name. Police lieutenant Carl Sprinkel said the man would not be charged: “It’s no crime to be weird.”
