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...yellow blanket. The Rev. Lawrence Solan administered last rites at Aspen Valley hospital and presided over communion for 15 family members. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.; the official cause of death was "massive head and neck trauma," and deputy coroner Tom Walsh found no trace of drugs or alcohol in the body. Michael's estranged wife Victoria was spending the holiday in Vail with her father, sportscaster Frank Gifford, and she arrived to take the children...
First stop, the King's Head in Santa Monica. It's a British pub, a place where the smoke used to be as thick as kidney pie. Now there's scarcely a trace of it; in fact, the King's Head looks as if the patrons are waiting for the Queen to show up for tea and crumpets. "It's a bit ridiculous, if you ask me," says bartender Jane Myers, a Brit who wonders why Americans can't just let themselves go. "They'll come in here and order fish and chips and a diet Coke. Now, what...
...going to dig up my grandfather and hang him!" shrieked one cousin. Blacks met Ball with suspicion, sometimes with anger. "The name Ball meant enemy," says Charlotte Dunn, whose rebel slave great-grandmother barely escaped murderous Ball pursuers. Blacks, left with few documents or oral information, can rarely trace their lineage more than a few generations. Ball's discoveries took them back to first contact. The exchange was painful, with stories of stolen 10-year-olds or slaves beaten or killed. "I came bearing terrible tales," Ball sighs...
...delightful comic performance as Pooh-Bah, the state advisor who has taken upon himself all of Titipu's offices except that of executioner. Managing to make one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most enduring and well-known characters unusually likable, Mills retains the character's indispensable stuffiness: "I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmic primordial atomic globule," Pooh-Bah sniffs genially, as he explains his haughtiness to Nanki-Poo and the audience. "Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable...
Oxygen is readily available in the atmosphere. But hydrogen only exists in trace amounts in the air, and must be produced artificially--usually from fossil fuels, and perhaps in the future from rotting biomass and solar panels...