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...continuing avalanche of O.J. Simpson books by high-profile authors was thinned by one Friday when 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss said he was abandoning his planned account of the trial. Given a front-row seat throughout the trial, McGinniss had planned to cover the story as the '13th juror' by avoiding other media coverage. But nearly a year after the event, McGinniss decided there wasn't a whole lot of there there. In a letter to his publisher explaining why he was ditching both the book and a $1.7 million advance, McGinniss said the trial "sapped my intellect...
...gaudily hyped Olympics were suddenly overcome by their media countershadow--so that the brightness now trails an equal and opposite darkness. Is it that terror and the media were implicated in some interconnected, overcommercialized Heisenberg effect? Did the media focus on the Games invite a terrorist to fasten his fatal attention where the lights were brightest? Perhaps. (On the other hand, the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia and elsewhere carried on its terror with no lights or cameras on hand. The Klan never heard of Werner Heisenberg...
...Japanese government's ability to cope with medical emergencies. "The World Health Organization says this outbreak is the worst in modern history," reports TIME's Frank Gibney from Tokyo. "The culprit is a particularly virulent strain of e.Coli bacteria that originates in animal intestines. Although it is seldom fatal, the bacterium is one of the world's most agile and potent bacilli, almost impossible to stop once it is loose in the human food chain." Symptoms of 0157 E.coli infection include dehydration, stomach pains and bloody diarrhea. A severe case of the infection can lead to kidney failure and brain...
...Wednesday the plane that would become the fatal Flight 800 to Paris had touched down in New York after a flight that originated at the airport in Athens, Greece, an aging facility with a reputation for lax security. After the explosion, suspicions were immediately voiced that terrorists might have planted a bomb in Athens, set to go off when the plane turned around in New York and headed for France. Greek authorities were livid at the implication...
...been a bad year for Montoursville. One teen dropped out of school and later committed suicide. There were two fatal traffic accidents, one killing a well-known high school student and the other a grade school child. When a vigil for the dead French club members took place on Thursday night in the school gym, 2,100 weary souls, a little less than half the town, showed up and wept in the bleachers. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge attended. A group of cheerleaders, in uniform, placed photographs of the town's 21 dead on a makeshift altar. The first speaker...