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In January KZZC-FM radio in Tipton, California, ended 18 consecutive months of being an all-“I Heard It Through the Grapevine” station, during which it played various versions of the song all day, seven days a week (except when it played the Eagles’ “New Kid in Town” for one weekend). The station had been up for sale, and the owners only needed to keep the frequency occupied, but negotiations dragged on much longer than expected.
David Schames, a founder of the Association of Coupon Professionals, explaining to columnist Martin Sloane in November why so many American companies have switched from overseas processors to prison-labor processors: “Employee stability is always an issue overseas, but most of the inmates [working for coupon companies] are serving long terms.”
In October a University of New Hampshire student wrote a letter to the school newspaper in which he blamed his recent drunken driving on a local police crackdown on underage drinking. Because he has to drive to another city to drink, the student wrote, “[I] can expect to be doing a lot more drunk driving.”
Undignified Deaths
