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DIED. ULI DERICKSON, 60, flight attendant for T.W.A. whose courage and calm determination saved lives when Lebanese gunmen hijacked Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985, and held the plane in Beirut for 17 days, killing one; of cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Taking charge, Derickson soothed a gunman by singing a German ballad he requested, intervened to stop the beatings of passengers and used her Shell credit card to pay $5,500 for the plane's refueling...
Rourke, who transferred from Mesa (Ariz.) Community College prior to the season, poured in 20 second-half points on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor and went 6-of-6 from the line to sink Harvard. Hitting an assortment of layups and mid-range jumpers, the 6’8 junior helped turn around a 26-22 halftime deficit. His jump shot with 9:53 to play put Cornell ahead 42-40, a lead the Big Red would not relinquish for the remainder of the game...
...transfer from Mesa (Ariz.) Community College added just one layup and a jumper over the first 10 minutes of the second half, before completely taking over the contest...
Each February, hundreds of high-tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists meet in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the most exclusive trade show of the year. Closed to the general public, Demo is a place where even a no-name start-up gets a chance to impress. Here's a peek at this year's coolest innovations. --By Anita Hamilton...
DIED. FRITZ SCHOLDER, 67, Expressionist painter and sculptor best known for bringing a fresh eye to so-called Indian art in the 1960s and '70s; of complications from diabetes; in Scottsdale, Ariz. One-quarter Native American, he initially refused to paint Indians, saying he hated the usual sentimental images of them as noble savages. In 1967, vowing to depict "real, not red," he changed his mind. His "Indian" series included the still striking rendering of a Native American man wrapped in an American flag, based on 19th century prison photographs of Indians dressed in surplus flags after their tribal regalia...