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...Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) took Dragstrip Girl; John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) opted for Girls in Prison; John Milius (Conan the Barbarian) chose Motorcycle Gang. The only youngster, 25-year-old Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), got Roadracers...
That's why both AirTouch Communications and Nynex Corp. last fall began testing a system to thwart telephone thieves that was developed by aerospace conglomerate TRW. The pirates typically use radio scanners to record the serial number and subscriber identity number that each cellular phone transmits at the start of a call. Then they program the numbers into their own phones, leaving the victim to get the bills. But TRW engineers have come up with a proprietary method for analyzing and storing a third signature of cellular phones -- their unique radio-frequency signal, which cannot be cloned...
...thanks to Phineas Gage, scientists will know where to search for that hole. It is surely where they will look when studying the brain -- donated to science -- of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, executed last May in Illinois. Suppose a Gage-like defect is found? Will it seem fair to have executed the man if he was physically incapable of moral judgment? As science begins to unravel bits of personality, accountability unravels with it. The person becomes his parts -- some working, some defective through no fault of his own. Will it become incumbent upon society to submit all killers...
...Before he was executed on May 10, serial killer John Wayne Gacy enjoyed an artery-clogging last meal of fried chicken, fried shrimp, French fries and fresh strawberries. Was he consciously emulating the final repasts of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock (of In Cold Blood notoriety)? A historical survey of last meals...
...BUNDY: Serial killer; electrocuted Jan. 24, 1989; Starke, Florida...