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DIED. Barry Bingham Jr., 72, third-generation chief of a Kentucky media empire run by the liberal, philanthropic, much chronicled Bingham family, sometimes called the Kennedys of the South; of respiratory failure, after a battle with Hodgkin's disease; in Glenview, Ky. After two brothers died in freak accidents, Bingham took over the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times from his father in 1971. He set new ethics guidelines, pushed public-service journalism and led the papers to three Pulitzers before a battle among the siblings prompted patriarch Barry Bingham Sr. to sell the papers to Gannett...
...quake of magnitude 6.0 or greater will hit here in the next 50 years, causing serious damage to communities from Memphis to St. Louis. That's especially bad news for Memphis, the biggest urban center in the region. In January, Memphis was ranked second least-prepared (after Louisville, Ky.) among 30 big cities studied by the American Disaster Preparedness Foundation. "Memphis has an aging infrastructure and many of its large buildings, including unreinforced schools and fire and police stations, are particularly fragile," U.S.Geological Survey geologist Eugene Schweig testified at the Capitol in February. "Very few buildings were built using modern...
...From a corporate communications director in Louisville, Ky...
PAUL L. WHITELEY SR. Louisville, Ky...
...TIME: Do you like American society now? LEE: I admire American society. But I would not want to live there permanently. If I had to be a refugee, like [former South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen] Cao Ky, who went to California, I would choose Britain, a less stressful society. [But Americans have] a can-do approach to life: everything can be broken up, analyzed, and redefined. Whether it can or it can't, Americans believe it can be solved, given enough money, research and effort. Over the years I have watched the Americans revise and restructure their economy, after they...