Unlike today's clot-busting drugs, which dissolve the clots that cause heart attacks, Aggrastat prevents clots from forming in the first place. Newborns of mothers who puff away during pregnancy have nearly the same level of nicotine in their bodies as adult smokers. Hence the baby's first few days of life may be spent in nicotine withdrawal. License plates have long been made by prisoners, but now they are also in the more questionable hands of artists. Standard-issue tags are competing with the burgeoning traffic of specialty plates.
Drivers can flaunt their social conscience in all causes and colors.
That has been a problem. Nevertheless, the mountainscape remains California's most popular specialty plate. Half the revenue supports the Yosemite Fund. Despite complaints from police officers about the plates' illegibility, the department of motor vehicles is riding out the controversy with no plans for a recall. But after Arizona issued it in 1992, it was redesigned for clarity.