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...there were no regrets from the state of Florida, either. The use of the electric chair as an execution tool was decried last year after a spate of fires prompted a ?cruel and unusual punishment? investigation. But with three inmates going to the chair in the last eight days, and another due tomorrow, Old Sparky isn?t destined for the museum any time soon...
Junior Parents Weekend strikes directly at the heart of the class of 1999, provoking a spate of mixed emotions...
Such a current, Philander thinks, could explain the unusual spate of El Ninos that marked the first part of this decade. Think of the cycle as one of the strings on the climate's violin, he suggests. "When something changes the tension on the string, the frequency of the vibration also changes...
...there is a spate of new books focused on slaves and enslavers. Velma Maia Thomas offers Lest We Forget (Crown; $29.95), an interactive children's book serious enough for parents. Readers remove slave sale receipts from envelopes and pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges...
...taking global warming seriously and doing something about it are two very different propositions. The nations gathered in Kyoto are split into several factions, each pushing a different plan to deal with impending climate change, and each--despite a spate of preconference workshops held during the past few months in an effort to narrow the differences--sticking to its guns. "I'm confident that some kind of agreement will be worked out in Kyoto," says Toshiaki Tanabe, Japan's ambassador for global environmental affairs. But there is every likelihood, in fact, that the U.N.-sponsored conference will accomplish nothing substantive...