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Mease had stalked out his victims--a former drug partner, his wife and their paraplegic 19-year-old grandson--for three days, according to the New York Times, "hiding in a hunting blind, wearing camouflage and face paint." Finally, as his three victims drove past, he shot and killed them all. He then got up from his hiding place and shot each one in the face. Mease was to die by lethal injection in two weeks, and Carnahan, the governor, had approved 26 executions since he took office six years ago. Yet he could not be expected to withstand...
Paglia, who is professor of the humanities atthe University of the Arts in Philadelphia, saidSchor's career move "is an excellent example ofthe kind of amoral careerism and the nakedambition that has been so typical of literaryscholars who drove up salaries in the starsystem...
First, the Vikings drove 80 yards on the opening possession for 7-0 lead on Hoard's 1-yard run. Then came two straight poorly thrown passes by Jake Plummer, Arizona's $29.7 million man. Both were intercepted by Robert Griffith, his first since Oct. 5, and Minnesota had a 17-0 lead...
...barely made it through high school biology for his and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery that DNA molecules arrange themselves in a double helix. That breakthrough earned them a Nobel Prize and made it possible to trace at the molecular level how cells organize hereditary information. In October, Watson drove in from the Long Island, N.Y., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he has worked for nearly three decades, to speak to TIME's reporters and editors. Elmer-DeWitt used the opportunity to invite Watson to write the package's closing essay. "He's an icon of molecular genetics," says Elmer...
...published Grand Inquests, a 278-page history of the 19th century impeachment trials of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. The book is out of print, but frenzied demand from reporters and congressional staff members desperate for clues about how Rehnquist will run Clinton's trial drove it to No. 23 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and persuaded the publisher, William Morrow and Co., to reissue it next week in paperback. The book is painfully judicious in refusing to offer opinions but seems to applaud the acquittals of Chase and Johnson as victories for an independent judiciary...