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...change of heart may be most remarkable in Texas, where 40 people were put to death in 2000. So far this year, seven have been executed. Governor Rick Perry, Bush's Republican successor, recently signed a bill giving the accused access to state-paid DNA testing, the strongest such law in the country. A pending bill would add life without parole to sentencing options in capital cases; another would exempt the mentally retarded from capital punishment and improve the quality of lawyers assigned to the cases of indigent defendants. Most striking of all is a bill that would allow Texans...
Some facilities work harder than others to make dolphins feel at home. Dolphins Plus, in Key Largo, Fla., fences off an area of the Florida Bay, thereby connecting the play area to the ocean. One of its owners, Rick Borguss, also holds stock in nearby Dolphin Cove, a natural lagoon surrounded by palm trees where children with disabilities interact with the sea mammals. Orlando's Discovery Cove has three man-made lagoons, seven holding pools, a medical pool for sick animals and a staff of 70-plus workers to tend to the needs of 30 dolphins...
...playground game has drawn some vocal defenders. "You mean there's weak in the world? There's strong?" howled SPORTS ILLUSTRATED columnist Rick Reilly. "Of course there is, and dodge ball is one of the first opportunities in life to figure out which you are and how you're going to deal with it." Martha Kupferschmidt, director of personnel and student services at the Murray school district in Utah, wonders why dodge ball has been singled out. "If we were going to ban dodge ball for aggressiveness," she says, "we would have to look at a whole gamut of sports...
...Rick Hanetho, a parks manager in Schomberg, Ill., started the National Amateur Dodgeball Association after noticing that local kids, given a choice, always picked the game. He says dodge ball is most loved by the geekier kids, who could never make the basketball team or cheerleader squad but still crave team sports. "It teaches incredible hand-eye coordination, quick decision making, concentration and agility," he says. "And it's just a game. This criticism is absurd, just crazy...
...organization came when they offered to give me the Stanley Cup for a day. The 108-year-old trophy, when not in the Hall of Fame in Toronto, is given to each player of the championship team for 24 hours. The only other journalist ever given the Cup was Rick Reilly of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who took it to a kids' hockey game, an old-age home and a hospital filled with sick children. The only way I was going to a hospital was if Pam Anderson was there recuperating from more breast enlargement surgery...