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EXECUTED. TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, 33, convicted terrorist whose truck bomb killed 168 people in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995; by lethal injection; in Terre Haute, Ind. McVeigh spent his last day writing to friends, napping and eating a final meal of mint chocolate-chip ice cream. McVeigh made no final statement, offering instead a handwritten copy of the 1875 poem "Invictus." He was the first person executed by the Federal Government in 38 years...
...space. Plenty of sighted people walk through life with less poise and grace than Erik, unsure of their steps, second-guessing every move. And certainly most of the blind don't maneuver with Erik's aplomb. As he takes a seat in a crowded restaurant, ordering pizza, spaghetti, ice cream, beer--you work up an appetite climbing Everest--he smiles and nods as other diners ask, "Hey, aren't you the blind...
...space. Plenty of sighted people walk through life with less poise and grace than Erik, unsure of their steps, second-guessing every move. And certainly most of the blind don't maneuver with Erik's aplomb. As he takes a seat in a crowded restaurant, ordering pizza, spaghetti, ice cream, beer?you work up an appetite climbing Everest?he smiles and nods as other diners ask, "Hey, aren't you the blind...
...children in a second-floor classroom heard the feeble, desperate cry from downstairs in an elementary school in Ikeda, a suburb of Osaka in western Japan. Then the screams grew louder. On the first floor, second-graders were just finishing music class when a large man in cream-colored trousers madly dashed toward them, muttering incoherently as he attacked pupils with a lethal 15-cm-bladed kitchen knife. He stabbed three boys standing by a chalkboard. When a girl tried to escape, he chased her down a corridor. "Run! Run!" a second child yelled. A teacher threw a chair...
...push a cart up and down the supermarket aisles, drifting like a Stepford wife past shelves dense with a hundred varieties of mayonnaise and a thousand brands of soup and ten thousand variations of orange juice and a hundred thousand nuances of ice cream: All the metaphysical abundance and diversity of the universe organized, canned, packaged, frozen, bar-coded, neatly awaiting the pleasure of our consumption...