Word: armstrong
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Cary, the motel handyman and champion underachiever who was arrested at a nudist colony, said in a jailhouse interview that voices told him to kill Carole and Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso in February and Joie Armstrong just two weeks ago. That he had fantasized about killing women since the age of 7. That they ought to make a movie about him, same as his famous brother. A movie about a would-be artist who became a serial killer, torching two of his victims and decapitating another...
...which has not done its finest work in the case, got blistered by critics last week for dismissing Stayner as a suspect and blithely announcing that men already in custody on unrelated charges were responsible for the Sund-Pelosso murders. A few weeks after that announcement, Joie Armstrong was dead, Cary Stayner was in jail, and the feds were finally connecting the dots...
...then it's up to Armstrong to pump his way to the front. Despite his lead, Armstrong must perform well and avoid accidents on this week's climb through the Pyrenees before he can claim victory in Paris next Sunday. But the outcome almost doesn't matter. With his miraculous recovery, his return to top-level cycling--and the expected birth of his first child in October--Armstrong doesn't need a trophy to prove he's a winner...
Talk about bouncing back. On Sunday ? three years after having been diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently undergoing four rounds of chemotherapy and two operations ? 27-year-old Texan Lance Armstrong rode triumphantly into Paris to become only the second American to win international cycling?s biggest race: the Tour de France. "What a compliment to his courage and to his doctors!" says TIME science contributor Fred Golden. "This is one of the most strenuous activities around." Armstrong, who had a hard time convincing any sponsors except the fledgling U.S. Postal Service team that he had it in him, finished...
...victory can be expected to propel Armstrong?s name and the cause of cycling, both previously little followed in the United States, to new levels of recognition. Already a victory parade in his hometown of Austin awaits, as well as a high-profile round of television and commercial appearances. In fact, Nike ads have begun airing touting Armstrong as the "first dead man" to win the Tour de France, a slogan the cyclist reportedly loves. Most important, though, Armstrong has demonstrated to cancer patients around the world that the dreaded disease can be vanquished ? and then some. "The message...