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...secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny [him] the right to counsel." Died. John Baldry, 64, British blues-rock singer who influenced some of the biggest names in British music, from Mick Jagger to Rod Stewart to Elton John; of a severe chest infection; in Vancouver. Nicknamed Long John because of his 2-m height, Baldry recruited some of rock's future stars early in their careers to play in his backing bands, inspiring them with his dedication and music (Elton John, born Reginald Dwight, even took his last name in honor of Baldry...
Pilot Willie McCool answered email questions in space over NASA's website. He explained how the G-forces on takeoff feel kind of like a bear sitting on your chest. He had trouble sleeping that first night, when you are essentially floating in your bed. The hardest part of his job was having to take blood from his fellow astronauts. "He was afraid he would hurt somebody while he was drawing blood," one friend and fellow pilot says. They had been serving together on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise when McCool got word he had been accepted by NASA...
...emergency treatment center on the outskirts of town. There were badly injured people all around, he recalls, "in the river, on the ground, everywhere." Many of the people who weren't killed instantly staggered aimlessly through the fires that raged throughout the wreckage. Tsuboi recalls one man with a chest wound so deep, you could see his lungs expand and contract with every breath he took...
...lies curled up as if only asleep, knees drawn to her chest, arms wrapped around them, tucked snugly in a nook between the coral boulders. But this woman is long dead, and her bones are as white as the coral branches that have crept among them like tree roots. Around her, lying in other cavities in the sharp rock and covered by volcanic ash, are the resting places of more human bones, all arranged in different positions of repose. Bats wheel above on the wind, which rushes through the coconut palms and sets the blue tarpaulin covering the graves flapping...
...Last year's excavation yielded 13 skeletons, all of them headless. This find, the first of many mysteries, was followed by the discovery of three skulls resting on the chest of the skeleton of an elderly man. None of the skulls was his, and one contained a jawbone from another skull, which hasn't been found. In the past few weeks, another 10 individuals have been found, interred in a range of unusual positions - some lying on their side, others with their legs apart or face down, a fate sometimes associated in ancient burials with those guilty of awful crimes...