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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...
...shivers with wind-whipped chop. Just ahead looms the island city of Malé, bustling capital of the Republic of Maldives, about 400 miles southwest of the southern tip of India. Clearly visible is the low line of motorized dhonis tethered in the harbor, and just beyond the boats, a row of multistory buildings that seem to be floating like a mirage. Exactly where, I find myself wondering, does the sea end and the land begin? For Malé--with its crowded shopping streets, its lively fish market, its gold-domed Friday mosque--might just as well have been built...
...bolts and brackets in hard-to-see nooks inside the car frame. He and his managers spent weeks debating how to solve the problem, with no results. Then, says Yu, "I woke up one morning, looked in the bathroom mirror, and realized 'That's it!'" He simply installed a row of mirrors above part of the assembly line to gain a better view of the car's innards...
...first in Helsinki, he appeared nervous and ill at ease. When he entered Finlandia Hall's blue-and-white main auditorium, he looked so diffident that some onlookers mistook him for a diplomatic aide. One who did not make that error was Shultz, who strode purposefully from his front-row seat to shake hands with the Foreign Minister and introduce himself. When a journalist asked Shevardnadze to stop and answer questions, the Foreign Minister shrugged, grinned and replied, "They won't let me," apparently a reference to his aides...
...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 penalty to combat dadah, the Malay word for drugs, 31 people have been hanged. Government officials say there are 80,000 known heroin addicts in the country, although the actual figure is thought to be much higher...