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Upstairs in a science classroom, student Kevin Starkey called 911. Teacher Dave Sanders had been shot running in the upstairs hallway, trying to warn people; he was bleeding badly and needed help fast. But by this time the 911 lines were so flooded with calls that the phone company started disconnecting people--including Starkey. Finally the 911 dispatcher used his personal cell phone and kept a line open to the classroom so he could help guide police there...
...Best was replaced by another Liverpool drummer, basset-eyed Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey in 1940). After passing an audition that their manager, Brian Epstein, had arranged with EMI's Parlophone label, the group cut its first single, Love Me Do, a moderate hit. In January 1963 a second single, Please Please Me, went to No. 1, and Beatlemania was born...
Nearly 30 million Americans suffer from hearing loss, yet only a quarter of them bother to wear hearing aids. Last week Starkey Labs introduced a new device that could encourage more people to seek help. Unlike typical aids that simply magnify all sounds, the tiny Cetera model uses new digital technology to mimic our natural ability to block out background noise and zero in on specific sounds, like a whisper or a voice across the room. If it wins FDA approval, the Cetera could be available for about $3,000 by summer...
There is no such safe haven for Prince Charles; perhaps there never was. As he once said, "There is no set-out role for me. It depends entirely on what I make of it...I'm really rather an awkward problem." Now, notes David Starkey, a lecturer in history at the London School of Economics, the death of Diana "has put Charles in an impossible position." Just a few weeks ago, a poll revealed that Britons were contemplating the notion that he might marry Camilla with less aversion, if not outright support. Even Diana, shortly before her death, told...
...which may not be for decades, given that the Queen Mum is 97. But the one thing Charles will not do, according to people who study these matters, is step aside. "There is a slow, tenacious obstinacy about the man which is a characteristic of his grandfather George VI," Starkey notes. "He wants to be King." Says Lord Blake: "Charles' whole life has been geared to the assumption that he will be King. There is not the slightest evidence from anyone that he has any intention of giving it up." Even if he wanted to turn the throne over...