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...blast, of Little Boy. On Tuesday an official of the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima discovered that the X-ray plates stored in a basement vault that had survived the blast and a fire had all been exposed. The atomic bomb had spread radiation throughout central Hiroshima, with lingering, lethal effects on its survivors that would not be fully understood for years...
...catalyst of these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
Residents of southern Florida were evacuated from coastal areas today as Gov. Lawton Chiles declared astate of emergency, closed state offices, activated the National Guard, and suspended toll-collecting on evacuation routes in preparation for the arrival Tuesday of Hurricane Erin. While not projected to be as lethal as Andrew was, Erin is expected to pound the southern part of the state with 90 mph winds, dumping up to 10 inches of rain and causing widespread flooding...
...Firearms, the editors knew immediately where to turn. Senior writer Erik Larson, who joined the staff in February, is a recognized authority on America's gun culture, having published a series of groundbreaking front-page stories on the subject for the Wall Street Journal and a critically acclaimed book, Lethal Passage: The Journey of a Gun (Crown...
...answer in the chilling case of a troubled Virginia teenager, who on a cold December day in 1988 walked into his high school with a semiautomatic handgun and began shooting, killing one teacher and wounding another. That incident was the starting point for the two-year investigation that produced Lethal Passage...