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...necessarily mean Denver made any mistakes--other than flying without a medical certificate. There's no evidence that he'd been drinking that day. "He was a solid pilot," says Tom Poberezny, president of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wis. The man who recently sold Denver the nine-year-old plane says the singer took it up for two checkout flights before the final, fatal one. The investigation still being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board may test another theory: that Denver had a freak collision with a pelican. But unless the NTSB finds otherwise, Denver, his plane...
Such celebrity hipsters as director Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Rodman and rocker Lenny Kravitz have painted their nails for years, but now nine-year-old boys are showing up at nail-polish parties in Dallas and Los Angeles. High school coaches from Orinda, Calif., to North Stamford, Conn., have ordered dozens of bottles in school colors for football players to wear on game day. "Young people in the 1990s are not as scared about issues of sexual orientation," says Chicago hairdresser James Braun, 20. "The younger crowd thinks it's stupid that only women can wear skirts and nail polish...
...director of the National Coalition for Patient Rights, about medical privacy, for example, and she rattles off a list of abuses that would make Big Brother blush. She talks about how two years ago, a convicted child rapist working as a technician in a Boston hospital riffled through 1,000 computerized records looking for potential victims (and was caught when the father of a nine-year-old girl used caller ID to trace the call back to the hospital). How a banker on Maryland's state health commission pulled up a list of cancer patients, cross-checked it against...
Throughout the hearing, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch has proscribed evidence he considered inflammatory. He wants the jury to make a reasoned decision based on fact, he said, and so he disallowed pictures of the victims' weddings, for example, and ruled that a nine-year-old boy, Clint Seidl, could not testify about the loss of his mother. The boy's "age and innocence," Matsch said, would make his testimony appeal too much to the emotions. But keeping emotions out of the proceeding was impossible, and jurors cried again and again. The prosecution's final witness was Clint's father...
Will such diversions capture the hearts, minds and leisure time of nine-year-old girls? Something's bound to. "Half the people who shop in our children's area have girls at home," notes CompUSA's Groatman. That kind of market power surely abhors a product vacuum...