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...Paradise Motel in Albuquerque, N.M., for an unusual series of medical tests. The women were all pilots, drawn from groups like the Ninety-Nines (the female pilots' organization founded by Amelia Earhart) and the W.A.S.P.s (Women's Air Force Service Pilots) as well as the women's air-racing circuit, the Powder Puff Derby. The tests were to assess their fitness as potential astronauts. The remarkable story of how these women got to the Bird of Paradise Motel and what happened to them afterward is documented in Martha Ackmann's The Mercury 13 (Random House; 239 pages...
...death since 1976, representing 5.2 percent of all executions during that time. Only since Atkins v. Virginia last June has it been illegal to carry out such sentences. But it was only 9 hours before the execution of Texas inmate Robert Charles Ladd last Wednesday that the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay so that a lower court could examine attorneys’ claims that he is mentally retarded. Juvenile offenders are another well-represented demographic on death row, and they remain eligible for execution only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia...
...free. The major music labels would disappear; ditto the record stores that sell their CDs. The age of millionaire rock stars would be over; they would become as much a historical curiosity as the landed aristocracy is today. Instead, musicians would scratch out a living on the touring circuit, since in an age of free music the only commodity they would control is live performance, along with any merchandise they could hawk in the parking lot after the show. Hollywood would also take a hit. People might still pay to watch movies in the theater--viewing on the big screen...
...business model is even more intriguing--is that it ignores the received wisdom about luxury-obsessed boomers. Curves' gyms are small, simple workout joints, often in strip malls, that cater to overweight women who have never worked out. They offer only one service: a tightly structured, 30-min. circuit-training workout on eight to 12 exercise machines. A recorded voice tells you when to move to the next machine. Most locations are open just seven hours a day, and there are no showers, massages or fruit smoothies. You walk in, follow the drill and leave...
...tiny Belgrade suburb of Zemun. The group had infiltrated not just Prime Minister Djindjic's security, but the prosecutor's office, where Djindjic's government had been preparing indictments against them. On the day Djindjic was killed, one conspirator was monitoring the Prime Minister's movements on closed-circuit television in state security offices and relaying the information to the assassin. "We knew we were infiltrated," says Milic. But confronting the Red Berets was not an option. "We didn't have the operational strength," he says. Djindjic's death changed that. What was meant to kill the government only made...