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...other countries that still punish by death, the technology of execution is simpler. A handful favor the headsman's ax or the even more ancient practice of stoning to death. The rest employ either the rope or the bullet, both of which have fallen into near total disuse in the U.S. Outside the U.S., capital punishment in the 1990s is usually associated with underdevelopment or lack of democracy, usually both. The death penalty no longer exists in any European Community country. Most of the nations of the former Soviet bloc have abolished it, and the rest are considering doing...
...Apple parades the usual assortment of acts. There are horse tricks, clowns, acrobats and a band. This array has changed surprisingly little in two hundred years. In 1770, Philip Astley, a skilled equestrian who could ride balanced on his head, brought together in one ring "Chinese Shadows, Tumbling, Slack-Rope Vaulting, Egyptian Pyramids" and a clown named Burt. Flocks of Londoners paid a shilling to see the show, the first modern circus...
Eight Matthews residents began stringing the boxes on a rope at midnight Tuesday. Harvard University police apprehended the students just after they completed the project at 5 a.m., but the officers left the sign...
...topping the charts? Well, how about a balding Oklahoma country singer whose idols include James Taylor and John Wayne, who prances across stage like a cross between Mick Jagger and Ferris Bueller, swinging from rope ladders and smashing his guitar, and who brings 40-year-olds to tears with his existential hymns about accepting life's incidental malice? Rock may be moribund, but Garth Brooks sure is thriving...
...THEME PARK is complete without a ride or two. Old Quebec has its "Founiculaire," a sort of outdoor elevator that travels by rope from the hotel to the street below. Although the two-minute trip costs at least a dollar, and the stairway to the town center isn't very long, the lines for the Founiculair often run around the block...