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...overhead fan pushed sultry air around the courtroom in Penang as High Court Justice Mohammed Dzaiddin Abdullah, wearing black robes and a white wig, pronounced the death sentence last week on two Australians arrested in November 1983 for possession of 179.5 g, or 6.3 oz., of heroin. Kevin Barlow, 26, and Brian Chambers, 28, are the first Westerners to face Malaysia's gallows under the 1983 Dangerous Drugs Act, which mandates death for possessing more than 15 g of heroin. They join 52 other drug traffickers on death row. Since 1975, when Malaysia passed its first law imposing the death...
...mere mortals on the track. With the overflow crowd of 19,231 booming rhythmic hurrahs, Cram was suddenly out front with a widening lead as Coe and the others broke and fell back. Even before reaching the tape, Cram began to celebrate his victory, both arms raised overhead as he casually glanced around at the crowd...
...blaze moved toward Santa Cruz, a nudist camp in its path was evacuated, scores of animals were rescued, including a wildly oinking 600-lb. sow, and lone fire fighters in the hilly terrain made desperate last stands against the flames with garden hoses. Nine helicopters churned overhead, dumping water when necessary and lowering equipment to the fighters below...
...head, would have kept me from taking that terrible seat. I would have known two minutes before sitting down what I didn't realize until two minutes afterward. That two-minute lapse of sanity will haunt me until I die. But the gun was inactive, there were no planes overhead--I simply wasn't thinking about what I was doing, only about what I was feeling--innocent of what the photo implies. Yet the photo exists, delivering its message, regardless of what I was really doing or feeling...
...inner harbor - and you elevate the experience to a marvelous new level. Conclude it with a gourmet meal for two in the gilded lobby of the Edwardian-era Peninsula hotel - not more than a minute from the ferry pier - while a string quartet plays in the gallery overhead, and you have one of the world's consummate travel experiences. That's the object of the Cruise and Dine package, launched by the Peninsula in conjunction with Hong Kong's "Star" Ferry Co., and it's one that neither first-timers to Hong Kong nor repeat visitors should miss. A specially...