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Prison officials charged with carrying out executions tend to be ready but hardly eager for the new era. "I'm at peace with myself," says Missouri Warden William Armontrout. "But I wouldn't want to sit here and do a whole mess of these things." He recently had the state's gas chamber repainted, and ordered a fresh stock of cyanide pellets. Armontrout stays friendly with his 28 death-row inmates, even though he may personally execute some of them soon. "I want the fellas to know I do care about them." By contrast, in neighboring Kentucky...
Just fine, judging by Mulroney's reception last week-though some U.S. executives, who recall similar declarations of amity during the Trudeau years, remain skeptical. "U.S. executives understand the cycles of Canadian anti-Americanism," said one listener. "They know that when they [the Canadians] are down, they tend to cozy up to Americans." Other executives, however, were less critical. After Mulroney's speech, Edward Hennessy, chairman of Allied Corp., told the Prime Minister, "What you said here tonight is indeed a breath of fresh...
...photographed sitting on a rock: she was not strong enough to stand, not strong enough even to eat. I still see her face." Burnett was also struck by individual images of compassion. "There were so many loving moments, a mother with her baby, a father protecting two children. We tend to think all human feelings die under such circumstances, but I felt a little less hopeless when I saw that it wasn...
Their city has always been a scrappy place, even brutish, and Chicagoans tend to take a perverse pride in its streetwise, tough-guy posture. Lately, however, even diehard Chicago chauvinists are admitting that the chronic battles-economic, racial, political-may be getting out of hand. Last week the city's school system, third largest in the U.S. with 430,000 students, was shut down by a teachers' strike, the second in two years. Black and Hispanic youth gangs have kept up their amazing homicidal pace, killing six people in the two weeks since the offhand murder...
...should not be is a call to take extreme sides; any scientific advance has a problem on its flip side, and by concentrating on the extreme alternatives the public confuses its dilemma. Scientific change and social change often run as two trains on independent tracks at different speeds. We tend to leap from one to the other thinking that the danger lies in one of the alternatives--but the issue is in fact in the leaping...