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...clean up a crime scene. The British journalist had never written about crime and had no experience with anything involving blood. But there was something about Neal Smithers, owner of San Francisco-based Crime Scene Cleaners, that made Emmins want to find out what he was missing. His book Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners follows Smithers - who started his company after watching Pulp Fiction - from a double murder to a slit-wrist suicide, and all the gruesome, partially decomposed scenes in-between...
...wake up and pray for death, and it would just keep coming. He'd get delighted when he received a phone call about a shotgun suicide. I remember thinking he was this mean, horrible character. And then the same thing happened to me. I was trying to write a book that's potentially going to be earning money off of people dying...
Once, nobody died for eight days. And I caught myself feeling very frustrated because I was researching a book and nobody was dying. Neal noticed and said, 'Hey, you're praying for death.' It really jolted me. I thought, 'My God, I'm as bad as Neal.' Then I realized, No, I'm actually much worse than Neal. He was invited to the crime scenes; people called him to come and clean the visual remains of a loved one they had lost. As a writer, I was just turning up very voyeuristically and recording these things. I was disturbed...
It’s a plot ripped from the pages of a comic book. From former president Larry Summers to Kennedy School professor Samantha Power, many of Harvard’s most famous—and infamous—super-professors are flocking to our nation’s capital to join President Obama’s team. Although the tally of professors departing Harvard to serve in the Obama administration seems to increase every day, the attendant holes in Harvard’s faculty are not cause for major concern...
When Sony ends production at its Ichinomiya plant sometime during the next five months, the company will be closing the book on a symbol of its golden age. For 40 years, the assembly lines at Ichinomiya, located southwest of Tokyo, have churned out products like Trinitron TVs that have helped make the Sony brand synonymous with quality and innovation in the minds of consumers worldwide. (See pictures of the history of Japan's interaction with the world...