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Time and again, volunteers have jump-started dormant death houses. Gary Gilmore, whose 1977 execution rang in the modern capital-punishment era, was a volunteer. So was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the first federal prisoner executed since 1963. Death-row inmates often recognize what's at stake. In Ohio in 1997, rioting death-row inmates attempted to kill Wilford Lee Berry Jr., who was trying to become the first Ohioan executed in more than 30 years. Berry survived the beating and was put to death in 1999. Since then, 15 other Ohio inmates have been executed...
Cervero did not at first know that he had been flying 7,000 ft. above a 17,716-ft.-high, long-dormant volcano known as Nevado del Ruiz at the exact moment when it came thunderously alive. Within hours, that rebirth had left upwards of 20,000 people dead or missing in a steaming, mile-wide avalanche of gray ash and mud. Thousands more were injured, orphaned and homeless. The Colombian town of Armero (pop. about 22,500) had virtually disappeared. At week's end a huge cloud of ash, rising as high as 45,000 ft., hung dramatically over...
Following the high of its dramatic game one victory, Harvard suffered a letdown against the Tigers in game two. Princeton mercy-ruled the Crimson in five innings, regaining its hitting stroke after lying dormant in the opener...
Singles by Gordon and senior Annie Dell’Aria were the only signs of life from a dormant batting order that was held silent by Penn State’s Ashley Esparza, who also went 3-for-4 with...
...scientists at the Texas Medical Center have enlisted the aid of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). More than 95% of the population is infected with EBV, a usually benign microbe that sequesters itself in the immune system's B cells. Like any other cellbound virus, EBV doesn't remain dormant for long, dividing furiously and emerging in runaway viral mobs. But unlike most other viruses, EBV is quickly eliminated by the vigilant immune system's killer T cells...