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Time and again, volunteers have jump-started dormant death houses. Gary Gilmore, whose 1977 execution rang in the modern capital-punishment era, was a volunteer. So was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the first federal prisoner executed since 1963. Death-row inmates often recognize what's at stake. In Ohio in 1997, rioting death-row inmates attempted to kill Wilford Lee Berry Jr., who was trying to become the first Ohioan executed in more than 30 years. Berry survived the beating and was put to death in 1999. Since then, 15 other Ohio inmates have been executed...
Streetcars stopped in silence. A bell rang mournfully seven times. It was 8:15 a.m. in Hiroshima last Tuesday, 40 years after an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy burst 1,850 ft. over the city with a searing, blinding flash, killing 118,000 people within days and dooming nearly as many to slower deaths in later years. In a speech to 55,000 onlookers at Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park, Mayor Takeshi Araki urged the superpowers to abolish nuclear weapons. The goal, said Araki, was "no more Hiroshimas." Afterward, 1,500 doves, symbols of peace, were released into cloudy skies...
...Hall, after two months of acrimony and audacity on and off the board, after jitterily watching his obdurate foe almost come from behind and after being driven all the way to the final game in the series, Gary Kasparov at 22 became the sport's youngest world champion. He rang down the curtain on Anatoli Karpov's decade-long top billing with a decisive, 42-move victory, to the obvious delight of a capacity crowd...
...middleweight wars hang out. The usual lopsided faces congregated again last week in Las Vegas, not just for the big fight but for LaMotta's sixth wedding. Jake is 0 and 5. In the middle of the ceremony at Joey Maxim's place on the gambling strip, a telephone rang but a riot was averted. "What round is it?" LaMotta joked. Someone answered, "Sixth...
...North Asia, it was supposed to be the year of living harmoniously. In January, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun rang in the Korea-Japan Friendship Year in Seoul by announcing, "Let's be friends happily and head toward the future." This sunny message was an echo of the event's catchy theme song, Dance with Me, performed by Korean singer Lena Park and a Japanese band called Chemistry. China also picked up on the good vibes and was making efforts to put aside its long-standing antipathy toward Japan: a group of women climbers from Japan and China arranged...