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`Emporium' by Adam Johnson.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Adam Johnson's Emporium first grabs you when you scan the titles of its nine short stories: "Teen Sniper," "The Death-Dealing Cassini Satellite," "The Jughead of Berlin," "Cliff Gods of Acapulco," "The Canadanaut."
The stories themselves, Johnson's debut collection, give you a good shake.
Johnson roams a fictional terrain _ maybe in the not-too-distant future, maybe in the not-too-distant past _ where reality is ramped up to near absurdity. His characters, groping toward understanding and sympathy for each other, then trump that absurdity.
"Teen Sniper" appeared in the March Harper's Magazine. A kid, code-named Blackbird, works in Palo Alto, Calif., as a police sniper whose usual targets are cornered information workers trying to make off with hacked data.
Blackbird is so good because he can stop his heart and squeeze ...
- Martin Marietta Corp.(NASA Cassini Satellite destruct system contract)(Defense...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily May 9, 1995 700+ words
...7 million face value increase to a firm fixed price incentive fee contract for one destruct system applicable to the Cassini Satellite Vehicle for NASA. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif., is the contracting activity [F04701...
- Teen sniper gets life in prison.(National Report)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Jet November 15, 2004 700+ words
Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo avoided the death penalty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole under a plea deal for one of 10 slayings that terrorized the Washington area in October 2002. Malvo, 19, was sentenced for the Oct. 11, 2002, killing of businessman Kenneth Bridges. He also
- Teen sniper victim tells of schoolyard pain, fear; Muhammad declines to...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 10, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Jon Ward, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The boy who was wounded by a sniper 3 1/2 years ago appeared in court in Montgomery County yesterday, now a young man, to face the man accused of trying to kill him. "I'm pretty much back to normal," said Iran Brown, now 17 and about 6 feet tall. Iran
- Teen sniper. (Story).(Short Story)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Johnson, Adam March 1, 2002 700+ words
When I reach the rooftop, I pull the dustcovers off my rifle scope and head for a folding chair leaned up against an air-conditioning unit--right where I left it the last time I was up here. Sitting down, I have a clear view across a courtyard of lawns and fountains to Hewlett-Packard. I line up a
- Judge rules teen sniper suspect can be tried as adult.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Pugh, Tony January 15, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Tony Pugh FAIRFAX, Va. _ A judge ruled here on Wednesday that sniper suspect John Lee Malvo, 17, can stand trial as an adult, a decision that means the teen could face the death penalty if convicted. Juvenile and Domestic Court Judge Charles Maxfield made his ruling in the Oct. 14 slaying
- Prosecutor argues teen sniper suspect should be tried as an adult.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Pugh, Tony January 14, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Tony Pugh FAIRFAX, Va. _ Fingerprints on a high-powered Bushmaster rifle link 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo to three fatal attacks and a fourth that left a man critically wounded, a Virginia prosecutor argued Tuesday. In addition, Malvo contacted police at least four times _
- Eight months for teen sniper.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) March 2, 2005 700+ words
A TEENAGE boy who shot at six school pupils with an air rifle was today sentenced to eight months at a detention and training centre. District judge Michael Morris, sitting at Warley magistrates court, told Arron Ellis, now aged 17, 'You assaulted six people. There is no alternative to a custodial
- The Depths of Space: the Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Science News July 17, 2004 700+ words
...generates heroes and is the stuff of which movies are made. Robotic spacecraft, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini satellite now orbiting Saturn, also have a knack for thrilling the public. Even so, Wolverton identifies the dozen or so Pioneer...
