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What do you do with the newspaper after you read it?
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2. Throw it on the ground. □
3. Make paper airplanes. □
4. Learn orgami. □
5. Do silly putty prints. □
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Insurers include war clauses
CHARLESTON, S.C. — With thousands of troops deployed for Operation Desert Shield, many want to increase their life insurance coverage before they go. That has proven difficult.
Some soldiers in gulf can't get more life insurance coverage
The Associated Press
In the same way casualty companies will not write hurricane coverage when a storm has formed, many life insurance companies are inserting war exclusion provisions in new policies.
"They say if you are killed in a war, the policy is no good," said I.C. Russell of the South Carolina Insurance Department.
The Washington-based American Council of Life Insurance has no sponsorship.
The department has received calls from concerned servicemen and women. But Russell said, "There's no mandate by law that says any insurance company must write you a policy if they don't want to."
panies are putting in exclusions.
"But it seems many companies are issuing the war exclusion clauses for military who have been called to the army," said spokesperson Diane Coffee.
Coffey said policies issued after Aug. 2, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, could include clauses that would forbid payment of the full policy if death occurred because of war in the Persian Gulf.
Toy-store chain pulls doll after protest
The Associated Press
STAMFORD, Conn. — A national toy-store chain has stopped selling "Steve the Trump" dolls after people picked outside a mall and said the character from Dick Tracy demeaned the homeless.
of advertising for the California-based chain.
The doll, sold by the Walt Disney Co., is described on its packages as an "ignorant bum . . . dirty and scarred from a life on the streets. You'll smell him before you see him."
A protest Friday by 12 people at the Stamford Town Center persuaded Kay Bee Toy & Hobby to remove the doll from its 1,200 stores, said Ken Cunniff, vice president
"The character would be fine if it was just an old curmudum, but I think the copy on the package goes too far."
Homeless people and activists in Stamford organized a protest against the doll after an Episcopal priest, the Red Christmas house of Hartford, put the doll at the top of the wall outside of it called 'Christmas', which he circulates to social action groups.
"I'm homeless, and you don't smell me before you see
me," said Carlton Whitehite, one of the protesters
Friday.
'God-induced' man drives truck into vehicles
The Associated Press
HAYARD, Calif. — A man who claimed God told him he could drive through cars with his flatbed truck would be charged for 12 people in 12 people Saturday, authorities said.
Emmet Wheat, 47, left a 2-to-3-mile section of the Nimitz Freeway
between Hayward and San Leandre littered with dented vehicles until his truck hit the center divider, police said.
Most seriously injured was 8-year-old Francesca Camus of Hayward, who was listed in critical condition at Childrens Hospital in Oakland.
authorities said. Camus was ejected from her mother's van when it was struck by the truck, highway patrol officials said.
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