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...jury in Preston, England, convicted two boys of the abduction and brutal murder near Liverpool last February of a two-year-old, James Bulger. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both just 10 years old at the time of the killing, were sentenced to prison for an indefinite term...
Relatively few emigrants found the paradise promised by the ads and the letters home. The early arrivals were, by and large, poor, ill-schooled and young (two-thirds were between 15 and 39 years old). In Europe's principal ports of exodus -- Liverpool and Cork, Bremen and Rotterdam -- they were beset by thieves and hucksters, cheated by ship's captains (there was no set fee for tickets to America) and, until the age of steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within...
...with tidy haircuts, had just left the ornate, oak-paneled Court 1, where the floor of the dock had been raised a foot to allow them to see over the brass rail. The boys are charged with abducting and brutally murdering two-year-old James Bulger last February in Liverpool, and with the attempted abduction of another toddler the same day. The ghastliness of the case and the youth of the defendants shocked the nation and particularly Liverpool, where mobs demonstrated against the boys. For the sake of fairness, the trial was moved 20 miles north to Preston (about...
...nobody to blame but himself. With his psychedelic horn-driven post-punk group The Teardrop Explodes, and on his seven subsequent solo releases, Cope has proven his ability to combine high intellectual weirdness with a razor-sharp pop sensibility. So how come the best singer/songwriter to come out of Liverpool since, say, 1962 has nothing but a half-handful of U.K. hits to show for his 13-year career? Simple: Cope seems to have no idea when he's being a genius and when he's recording pretentious dreck. Well, thank God for anthologists. Floored Genius: The Best of Julian...
...many cases, the trade-offs make sense -- both financially and environmentally. But in others, long-term costs and dangers can outweigh the benefits. "Pollution problems go up, property values collapse and frequently no real jobs result," says EPA engineer Hugh Kaufman, a hazardous-waste specialist. In East Liverpool, Ohio, some local residents, aided by Greenpeace, launched a hunger strike to protest the start-up of a giant incinerator that promoters say could help uplift the devastated steel region by processing dangerous industrial wastes...