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...convicted in 1984 and sentenced to death. Fourteen years later, in the state with the busiest execution chamber in the land, Tucker now finds herself next in line to die. Barring a last-minute delay or commutation, on Feb. 3 she will be strapped to a gurney in Huntsville, Texas, and given a lethal injection that will stop her heart. If that happens, she will become the first woman executed in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez was hanged in 1863 for killing a horse trader--and the first woman in the U.S. since Velma ("Death Row Granny") Barfield...
Lott may have been playing to the millions of Americans who will soon participate in the second busiest travel week of the year. James McIntyre speaks only for himself. An air-accident investigator, McIntyre observed the hearings as an ex-pilot who flew TWA's New York-Paris route repeatedly with a nearly empty central tank. (Drained to reduce weight, it was filled only for longer flights.) Asked if he'd try it again after the week's disclosures, he replied carefully, "I wouldn't have a problem--in the wintertime...
...YORK: Broadcast a TV commercial encouraging consumers to stay home today, rather than shop on the busiest day of the retail year? You'd be quixotic not to expect opposition from retailers. But who'd have thought that the so-called Buy Nothing Day ad would be also be censored ? by two national TV networks...
Bonacci Jr. says the middle two weekends in December are the busiest times at the tree...
...brick firehouse while Lewis and his crew snatch up their coats and helmets. In a flash, all five firemen are aboard their truck and rocketing out of the station to handle one of the 70 emergency calls they receive each week at one of the busiest station houses in Chicago. The 17 fire fighters of Engine Co. 16, nearly all of whom are black, specialize in more than fighting the high-rise infernos that ravage the Robert Taylor Homes, part of the largest public-housing projects in the U.S. They serve as mentors, guides and surrogate fathers to lost children...