Word: steeled
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SENTENCED TO DEATH SINCE 1986, the unrepentant killers idle in hundreds of maximum-security "igloos," scattered strategically across eight states. The igloos are constructed of reinforced concrete, then smothered under 2 ft. of earth. Their double-padlocked steel doors are blocked by 2 1/2-ton concrete blocks and monitored by Army personnel...
DIED. JERRY SIEGEL, 81, co-creator of Superman; in Los Angeles. In a single fateful bound in 1938, Siegel and his artist partner Joe Shuster leaped to sell their Superman rights to Detective Comics for a mere $130. In 1975, long after the Man of Steel had become a man of gold (and his two creators had drifted into near poverty), Warner Communications, which by then owned the rights, agreed to restore the two men's bylines and give them annual stipends for life...
...shrieks-with-chic Barneys boutique. His epiphany was outside the store, not inside. Instead of Bentley Turbos, Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception to his clients: "Cars are now history. The future belongs to trucks...
...likely to encounter this side of Churchill Downs, is trying to ride that discontent to the head of the G.O.P. presidential race. Whether he ever intended, or expected, to get as far as he has is uncertain. Even less clear is whether he has the staff, the steadiness and steel to switch from quirky joyrider to formidable contender...
DIED. ARVID FREDBORG, 80, Swedish journalist whose 1943 book, Behind the Steel Wall, was one of the earliest exposes of the extent of Nazi Germany's systematic genocide of the Jews; in Stockholm...