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...group had six Top 10 hits in three years. Phillips, right, who died of heart failure, had overcome years of drug and alcohol abuse. DIED. DAVID MCTAGGART, 69, who co-founded the environmental pressure group Greenpeace and built it into a worldwide movement, killed in a car crash; in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, animation pioneer whose 50-year partnership with Joseph Barbera produced such well-loved cartoons as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and The Flintstones and won the pair seven Oscars; in Hollywood. DIED. GORDON BROWN, 53, Scottish rugby forward who won 30 caps...
...construction company, then piled into everything from supertankers to microchips. His energy and drive were Olympian, his chutzpah legendary: he once sold a ship before Hyundai even had a shipyard. But like other chaebol chieftains, he fueled his empire with cheap debt and political favors, and Korea's economic crash in 1997 discredited the formula. By then Chung was dreaming of driving his bulldozers north. Taking one last audacious turn in the driver's seat, he poured millions into North Korea, hoping his money could bridge the peninsula's divisions. Chung once said he wanted to live...
...monitor their stock holdings but also through Fidelity Investments make actual hands-free trades while attempting to negotiate traffic. They may thus be able to dodge a market sell-off by unloading shares on the fly and at the same time stay focused enough to avoid a real crash--say, into the car up ahead...
Russia is not saying much about checking the laces as the wheezing old Mir prepares to end its life in a planned crash, scheduled for Thursday or Friday of this week. The 143-ton ship will re-enter the atmosphere in a flaming arc over the South Pacific, hitting the ocean as a sizzling pile of slag somewhere between Chile and Australia. But even as this final dive approaches, Mir's biographers are working hard to catalog the station's achievements: the 16,500 experiments conducted in its labs; the 600 industrial technologies it helped create; the 104 crew members...
Since JEAN CARNAHAN defeated Senator John Ashcroft in Missouri's Senate race, Republicans have been uncomfortable going after the woman who stepped in to take up her husband's campaign following his death in a plane crash. But the G.O.P. is changing its widow treatment; she is now considered a target for 2002. (Carnahan must run in 2002 since it was her husband who was elected; she was only appointed.) G.O.P. polls in Missouri show that Carnahan runs even, at 43%, against former Congressman JAMES TALENT. Against Representative JO ANN EMERSON, Carnahan leads by 9%, but partisans point out that...