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...Byrd's family sat in the front row, often weeping as prosecutors piled up what began to look like overwhelming evidence against John William King, 24, the unemployed laborer and ex-con accused of masterminding the dragging. Across from them sat King's wheelchair-bound father Ronald, who took oxygen through tubes and moaned and cried softly through the opening arguments. A few feet in front of him was his son. Visible around the defendant's waist was an electric stun belt, to be used if he grew disruptive...
...Oberlin, we asked, How can we design a building like a tree?--a fecund structure that purifies waters and makes oxygen and food," he says. "In Coffee Creek, we asked, What if a town were like a forest?" He envisions the Indiana project as the first step toward creating "a green world with connecting gray zones...
...mouth is a hurricane/I'm bored, I use Novocain.../Hum along and regret it." After a string of mediocre opening acts, one featuring a miffed Charles-in-Charge playing loungey guitar rip-offs, the wild-eyed sincerity of The Sheila Divine was as invigorating as a blast of pure oxygen...
...then there's the impending arrival of Oxygen, an all-new cable channel set to debut on Jan. 1, 2000, which will target women and children exclusively. Launched by former Nickelodeon president Geraldine Laybourne, it will rely heavily for its programming on producer Marcy Carsey, the force behind such hit shows as Roseanne and 3rd Rock from the Sun. "There is no diversity on network TV right now," says Carsey. "All the women are young and beautiful and work in the media. They don't seem to have any real problems." Except, of course, for the women...
When the Dow peaked at 985 in 1968, the conglomerate movement comprised dozens of America's largest companies, including Textron, Litton, Teledyne, Raytheon, Walter Kidde & Co. and US Industries. The movement would sputter to a halt in the '70s, its oxygen cut off by rising interest rates and a falling market. A surprisingly anticonglomerate Nixon Administration crimped the most aggressive expansions in the interest of protecting what Ling calls "the smokestack-industry crowd" of old-line executives. Ling was forced out of LTV in 1970 as part of an antitrust settlement. Bluhdorn died on a company jet in 1983. Geneen...