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...bird was not a real bird, of course. It was a small plastic model that broke into song when its switch was thrown. Lately it had begun singing whenever it was jostled, and on this day it got jostled hard. Just moments before, the station's commander, Vasili Tsibliyev, had attempted to bring an unmanned cargo vessel in for a remote-control docking. When the ship was just a few yards from the station, it suddenly flew wide of the docking port, sideswiped one of the station's solar panels and slammed broadside into its Spektr science module. The collision...
Massachusetts conducted its last execution in 1947. The drive to reinstate the death penalty has been spurred by recent local killings, most prominently the murder and rape of Jeffrey Curley, the Cambridge 10-year-old kidnapped by two men and dumped in a plastic container in a Maine river. Curley's killing was brutal and horrific, its perpetrators sick. But killing them will do no good. When the anger over such crimes abates, we are left with a dual challenge: preventing such crimes from happening again and dealing with the sad people who caused so much pain. The fallacy...
When the eighth-graders settled into their classrooms on the first week of school this year, they found plastic boxes with mesh tops and one or two caterpillars in them. English teacher Kay Pfaffendorf and social studies teacher Cindy Farmer had taken a course on raising monarchs at the University of Minnesota in order to present a project involving not only their subjects but also math, science...
Paul Pfuhl, a Motorola employee representing the company at the event estimated that Motorola had given out 65 cases of candy in plastic megaphones over the last two days...
...they were second-story men in an old Dick Tracy comic. And here too, representing the not so tormented, not so still-living-in-James-Dean's-shadow side of stardom, we find Tori Spelling. She bounces in on top of a pair of bright-orange platform flip-flops, plastic daisies affixed to their toe straps. Clutching a baby-blue handbag the size and shape of a lunchbox, she is wearing baggy denim overalls and a floral-print T shirt. In short, she is the spitting image of a jolly, schoolbound kindergartner, although at 24 she is better coiffed...