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...turned out, opportunity--in the form of Byrd ambling along the highway--presented itself a few weeks before July 4. It seemed precisely the kind of dramatic action King had been working toward. King dragged his victim's severed torso through a black part of town and dumped it near a black church and cemetery. He wanted Byrd's death to fulfill the traditional function of a lynching. "It was designed to strike terror into the community," a government witness said...
...Canadian Prime Minister, lies at the bottom of a lake in British Columbia, carried there by an early-season slide. "The more I know about avalanches, the more scared I am," says Wendy Fisher, two-time Extreme Skiing champion and a notoriously fearless backcountry skier who has survived several near misses...
Many backcountry purists, though, want places more isolated than the resorts' wilderness areas, and they'll spend thousands to reach even more remote wilderness zones. Some are traveling to Irwin Lodge, near Crested Butte, which is the largest Sno-Cat resort in the U.S. Co-owner Molly Eldridge says the lodge, which charges $225 a day for skiing, is almost fully booked this year...
...most pained character in the whole drama was basketball legend and Laker vice president Jerry West, who had complained about stress on the job pre-Rodman. West too appeared near tears, but it wasn't clear whether it was from firing his friend Harris or from sheer relief that Rodman, who uses his head as an evolving art project and wears enough facial rings to hang curtains, hadn't shown up wearing a dress. Yes, Rodman is right for L.A. But for the Lakers...
...income tax, and electric and water bills are inexpensive. "I would say you could live here comfortably for around $25,000 a year," says Frank Butler, 68. He and his wife Vernie paid property taxes of $4,000 on their South Florida home; for the 80-acre farm near Newport they bought in 1996, they're paying a third of that. The average price for a two-bedroom, two-bath home on one acre is $75,000. For that, you also get the weather. Joy and Mac McMurray are another couple who left the Sunshine State, selling their West Palm...