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...team is listening for. "We're trying to discover what unites and divides the nation, besides the road," says Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy. That search took our journalists last week to high schools, truck shops, bowling alleys and bars. They explored a 2,000-year-old Indian burial mound, a doll factory, an FBI lab and a two-alarm fire. The first dispatch from the Greyhound appears in this week's issue. Look for our full report next month...
MADRID: There was no coffin or graveside eulogy, just a simple Pegasus rocket traveling at 6,200 mph and 22 lipstick-sized metal vials containing the ashes of Timothy Leary and "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, among others, for the first commercial burial in space. The containers will orbit the earth for up to10 years before reentering the atmosphere with a fiery explosion ? "blazing like a shooting star in final tribute," according to the Web site for Celestis Inc., the Houston-based company that organized the world's first space funeral. At $4800 per vial, the space shot costs about...
Through blind physics, the Antarctic can confer on a dead seal the splendor of an Arthurian burial rite. A corpse will become frozen beneath some floating ice, then rise slowly to the top as ice forms below and evaporates above. Once on the surface, the body insulates the underlying ice from the sun, causing it to form a pedestal as the surrounding ice recedes. Eventually, the ice breaks up, and the seal, mummified by the dry, cold climate, drifts out to sea. As layers of warm and cold air bend light and play tricks on the eye, it can appear...
...group of people are going to choose to die together, it is best to have a master plan: proper burial outfits, packed suitcases, lists, farewell videotapes, even recipes for death. The ghastly jumble of bodies piled upon bodies discovered in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 may have provided a stark lesson in how not to do it. That mass suicide was a disorderly, ungracious way to meet your maker, a study not in serenity but in chaos...
...were told that Everardo was buried on a military base, which we have not been able to excavate," Pertierra said. "A Guatemalan government lawyer showed up [at the burial site] and stopped the exhumation because the two goons surrounding him had automatic weapons...