Career Move: Though $2-million-a-year superstar Bo Jackson...

Career Move: Though $2-million-a-year superstar Bo Jackson of the Kansas City Royals has injuries that threaten his career, he doesn’t have to worry: Another team has offered to pick him up. The coach of the Live Oak, Fla., Gray Ghosts Little League wrote to the Royals last week: “Please advise Mr. Jackson that practice is on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and a missed practice means he will not start in Saturday’s game. . . . He will, of course, have to supply his own jock strap, cleats, glove and one baseball.” And Bo’s salary? From the Ghosts’ allowances. “Hey, we’ll raise that from dimes and quarters,” said the coach.

Short Story: Novelist Stephen King, known for his gruesome tales, is giving away leftovers. Not to worry. He has a “a garage full of books” that he intended to ship free to soldiers in the Persian Gulf--then the war ended abruptly. So now he lugs them to the airport in his hometown of Bangor, Me., and hands them out to troops passing through on refueling stops.

Don’t Push: Rep. Les AuCoin (D-Ore.) received a personal get-well note from Labor Secretary Lynn Martin advising him not to “push too hard. Your health is too important.” But a healthy AuCoin figured her note was for Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisc.), who had been sick. He told a worried Martin: “I got your letter, with the wish that I start feeling better. I, of course, appreciate it, but I think I should explain something. I’m Les AuCoin, in Appropriations. Les Aspin is in Armed Services. Now that you’re in labor, I hope you don’t push too hard either.”

What’s Your Crime? Houston police drew up a survey of downtown street people to better provide services, but one question asked what crime they were most likely to commit. Said a homeless worker of police claims that the survey was to generate trust: “It’s fairly evident that’s not their real motive.” Police said not to worry: They merely want to “plug the homeless into a social service network.”