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50,000 young people work in the sometimes shady and dangerous world of traveling sales crews, such as the one involving the death of a Santa Fe man. When Carol Salter of Colorado Springs, Colo., heard about the arrest of five door-to-door magazine salesman in connection with the death of a Santa Fe man late last month, she got a big knot in her stomach.Salter’s 18-year-old daughter, LeAnn, had joined a similar crew selling subscriptions door-to-door in Denver and Colorado Springs.LeAnn had quit the crew two weeks earlier, but Salter couldn’t help but think how close her daughter had come to being in Santa Fe at the time of the killing.In late October, two crews selling subscriptions through the same company had been staying at a Ramada Inn in the Denver area, according to LeAnn. Her crew was preparing to go to Utah when she quit. The other crew was headed to Santa Fe.While LeAnn said in a telephone interview last week that she didn’t know any of the people arrested in Santa Fe, she said the traveling-sales environment was often rough. “I’d walk into the hotel room and 20 people would be smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol,” she said. “I - more available