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Time that Knoxville police spent shooting at the armed McGouey, who stood motionless as they fired with a bulls-eye painted on his forehead: 3 Minutes...
...you’ll meet your next tour guide Jimmy.” After promising that “we’ll get to know each other very well,” Jimmy delivers the next two minutes or so of the tour. Strobe lights flash as the motionless figure of a slave girl named Candy insists that she is not a witch. A goblin and a cat made out of felt stare at us sadly...
Experts like Cranford decry the use of videotapes like those on terrisfight.org as misleading and gimmicky. Patients in a vegetative state do not lie motionless like the floating bodies in the classic 1978 sci-fi movie Coma. They are capable of smiling, crying and turning toward a voice. "There are many, many behaviors that look like conscious behavior that are reflexive or automatic," says Joseph Giacino, associate director of neuropsychology at the JFK Medical Center and the New Jersey Neuro-science Institute in Edison, N.J. After looking at the videos of Terri Schiavo for TIME, Giacino said, "This...
DIED. BILL SHOEMAKER, 72, Hall of Fame jockey known as "the Shoe"; in his sleep; in San Marino, Calif. Born prematurely at 2 lbs., he grew to 4 ft. 11 in. and 98 lbs.--small even for a jockey. With his gentle, almost motionless style, he had a unique rapport with his horses and, said trainer Charlie Wittingham, "bothered a horse less than any other rider." In 41 years he won 11 Triple Crown events and an impressive 22% of his races overall. In 1986, aboard Ferdinand, he became the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. A year after...
...Escape Prisoners are forced to sit motionless for days, or kept in tiny isolation cells without space to stand up or lie down. One failed escapee was dragged to his death by a car in front of assembled prisoners. The inmates were forced to touch the mangled corpse; when one prisoner protested, he was shot...