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...minutes after 3 o'clock on a spring afternoon, a color poster of a crucified Jesus hangs in front of the art classroom in a public school in Pennsylvania. For the next hour, three adults will guide 21 children between the ages of 4 and 12 through songs they know by heart (Good News, Jesus Died for Me!) and a Bible lesson ("Heaven's a perfect place. And Jesus wants you to live there!"). It sounds and feels like Sunday school, but it's Wednesday. This is the meeting of Pleasant Gap Elementary's Good News Club, a weekly event...
...biggest problem is marketing - or as the TiVo folks put it, "education." It seems those of us who have spent the last 20 years figuring out how to program the VCR clock are terrified by the idea of switching to a PVR and all the extra technological challenges that sounds like it might entail. In truth, nothing could be easier than navigating TiVo's menus. All you really need to know how to use are the buttons market up, down, left, right and select. But computers have gotten such a bad rap with the technophobic, as slowing PC sales suggest...
Jacob Davis, 21, at right --18 when crime committed --Tried as an adult in Tennessee --Killed his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend --Serving 52 years; eligible for parole when he is 70 years old LIFE NOW Wakes some mornings reaching for his old alarm clock. Grieves over the knowledge that he'll never have kids...
...reason often gets plowed under by superstition. In frightened northern and eastern New Delhi, home to some 4 million people, no neighborhood is dark after sunset anymore. Power outages have been stopped as a result of the panic, and city politicians guarantee electricity will remain on around-the-clock until the monster is caught (or forgotten). Wandering bands of vigilantes guard neighborhoods with wooden cudgels, daggers, field-hockey sticks, ceremonial swords and pikes made from butchers' cleavers. They carry whistles around their necks to warn other neighborhoods of impending attack. In the early hours, police fire flares over cultivated ground...
DIED. JAMES MYERS, 81, co-writer of Rock Around the Clock (1954), heralded as the granddaddy of all rock-'n'-roll tunes; in Fort Myers, Fla. He estimated that he made $10 million in royalties for that one song, recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets, which stayed at No. 1 for eight weeks and sold 22 million copies...