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...state court in McAlester, Oklahoma. Nichols is currently serving a federal life sentence for participating in the bombing, which killed 168 people. The new convictions stem from charges that Nichols played a key role in planning the attack and building the bomb. Co-conspirator Timothy McVeigh, who drove the truck containing the explosives, was executed...
...feel far away, so long as the TV is off. World War II was much more intimate, and not only because any son could be drafted to serve. Women went without their nylons and saved their bacon grease to make explosives and planted victory gardens. People on the coastlines drove 20 m.p.h. after dark, their headlights partially blacked out, or volunteered as air-raid wardens or donated their rubber raincoats and tires and bathing caps, even though they couldn't be recycled for military use. It had the effect of pulling people together, uniting them behind the cause...
...d?j? vu in Asia. The region's vulnerabilities stem from the long-standing deficiencies of internal demand?namely, the lack of support from private consumption. Until Asia establishes a better balance in its growth dynamic, the impacts of external disturbances will forever be magnified. The 1997 crisis drove this point home with a vengeance. Since then, Asia has concentrated its efforts on repairing the cracks in its financial architecture that proved so damaging back then. But no two crises are alike. The big risk for Asia, in my view, is that by focusing its attention on responding to the last...
...moments of high drama--the grace with which his father fulfilled his daily obligations. His principles are as simple as the book's chapter titles: "Work," "Faith" and "Discipline." Big Russ worked for the sanitation department in the morning, crashed diagonally on his bed for a spell and then drove a newspaper truck at night. When he was eligible to retire at age 55, he had accumulated 200 unused sick days...
...year. As mortgage rates have fallen to four-decade lows, more folks have told the landlord to shove it and bought a house. Home ownership is at a record 69%. That trend, along with a weak economy that forced others to double up or move back home with Mom, drove the apartment vacancy rate to 7.1% last quarter, a 16-year high, reports REIS Inc., a real estate research firm. In many markets, rents have been declining...