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A 24-year-old Los Angeles man was taken to a hospital and then to county jail after leading police on a one-hour freeway chase in a stolen SUV. The chase ended in downtown Los Angeles in front of the Spring Hotel. Most of the chase was uneventful, except for an empty bottle of whiskey that the driver threw at one police vehicle.

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Jerry Baldwin was 30 years old. He was the manager of a pizza restaurant. He lived in an apartment about one mile north of the restaurant. He walked to and from work. When it was raining, he took the bus.

Jerry loved gangster movies. When a new one came out, he would go to the theater and watch the new movie three or four times. Then, when it went to video, Jerry would buy the video at Barney’s Video Store. Jerry had a home collection of over 1,000 gangster videos. Old ones, new ones, color, black and white, English, Spanish, Japanese--he loved them all. He could tell you the name of the movie, the director, the stars, and the plot. Did you say you liked “Pulp Fiction”? Well, Jerry would rattle off all the details of that movie. And then he would invite you to his place to watch it some time. He was a nice guy.

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A fifteen-year-old boy was injured in a car accident when the minivan he was traveling in was hit by a pickup truck at an intersection. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital. The paramedics said that it appeared that the boy had nothing more serious than a broken left leg, but that internal injuries were always a possibility. The boy was conscious and alert. His mother, who was driving, was uninjured. She said that the truck appeared out of nowhere, and she thought she was going to die. She turned the steering wheel sharply to the left, and the truck hit her minivan on the passenger side.

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One of my playmates and I were making little cows out of clay. The clay was sticky and smooth since it came from a white-ant hill; it didn't fall apart the way clay with sand in it does. It was the beginning of the rainy season, and there was a light drizzle. So we were modeling our clay in the shelter of a big tree.

Presently two of the older boys from the other side of the village came along. One of them was very strong, and he had the nickname of Kywe Gyi, which means Big Buffalo. He was carrying a live heron inside his shirt.

"Where'd you get the heron?" my friend asked Kywe Gyi. "Did you hit it with your slingshot?"

"Yes, I shot it down by the pond," answered Kywe Gyi.

"And I hit one too," said the other boy, "but it got away."

"Take it out and let me have a look at it," I said to Kywe Gyi.

参考译文：
我的玩伴之一，我是用粘土制作的小奶牛。黏土被粘和顺利，因为它从一个白蚂蚁山来，它并没有四分五裂的方式与砂黏土它。这是雨季的开始，并有一个细雨。所以我们在造型我们在大树下躲避粘土。

目前从村另一边的两个大男孩走了过来。其中之一是很强，他有台基伟Gyi，这意味着大布法罗的昵称。他是带着他的衬衫里面住苍鹭。

“你从哪儿弄来的苍鹭？”台基伟Gyi我的朋友问。 “你打你的弹弓呢？”

“是的，我拍下来的池塘，回答说：”台基伟Gyi。

“我打一过，”另一个男孩说，“但它逃走了。”

“拿出来，让我看看吧，我说：”台基伟Gyi。

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