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...case finally seemed ready to go on Thursday morning. Few people in the courtroom knew that Kaczynski had arrived in his prison jumpsuit but without underwear; U.S. marshals saw a slight red bruise on his neck and later concluded that he tried to hang himself the night before. At 7:50 a.m., prosecutor Robert Cleary nervously paced the courtroom's well, then went up to the jury box to ensure he knew what jurors would be able to see when he started his opening statement. But once everyone was seated, Clarke stood up. "Mr. Kaczynski has a request that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fits And Starts | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...brought him down the mountain on a toboggan, covered in a yellow blanket. The Rev. Lawrence Solan administered last rites at Aspen Valley hospital and presided over communion for 15 family members. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.; the official cause of death was "massive head and neck trauma," and deputy coroner Tom Walsh found no trace of drugs or alcohol in the body. Michael's estranged wife Victoria was spending the holiday in Vail with her father, sportscaster Frank Gifford, and she arrived to take the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Family: Tragedy Strikes Again | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Theodore Kaczynski has been placed under a 24-hour suicide watch after trying to hang himself with his underwear Wednesday night. Police said they discovered the attempt only after spotting him in court with red marks on his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kaczynski Reportedly Tried Suicide | 1/8/1998 | See Source »

Sonny Bono, the former pop star who went on to a national political career, died in a skiing accident yesterday afternoon. Bono, 62, skiing alone on the slopes in South Lake Tahoe, slammed into a tree and sustained fatal head and neck injuries, an accident that eerily echoes the death last week of Michael Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Straight Man | 1/6/1998 | See Source »

...misery loved the company. The years of anguish produced rich rewards made possible by some neck-snapping breakthroughs. The key to the success dated back to an insight Moore had in 1965. Sitting down with a piece of log paper and a ruler, he drew a simple graph. On the vertical axis he tracked the growing complexity of silicon chips, along the bottom he ticked off time, and then he plotted the points out a few years. The resulting line, he saw, showed that chip power doubled roughly every 24 months, even as costs fell by half. The rule (amended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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