Word: deadly
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...studied. By 1968-1970, 188 of those graduates were still living. In 1985, 171 were still living. When the graduates were 40-years-old, virtually all of the men had remained in the study; when the men were 65-years-old, only 74 of them were chronically ill or dead, and 22 of the men were in "excellent" health...
...incidence of adultery laws, as well as statutes prohibiting fornication (two unmarried people having sex), traces a hig-gledy-piggledy pattern across the national map. Adultery is still illegal in about half the 50 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Michigan; enforcement of the strictures is normally a dead letter. But since there is no organized constituency to demand their repeal, the prohibitions remain as bludgeons to be picked up in marital brawls. Says Ronald Allen, a professor of law at Northwestern University: "Who wants to come out in public in favor of adultery?" Primarily, the American Civil Liberties Union...
...bitter college recollection about feeling as if he were in a test tube from an uncertain liberal experiment: "I was walking down the street with this cute little white coed, thinking we're minding our business, strolling to the cafeteria for a cup of coffee, and blam. Run right dead into the glass wall." To Wideman, the stares seemed to say "Wait a minute, boy . . . You still in the tube, nigger, and don't you forget...
Instead, burdened with memories of dead horses on roadsides and German planes strafing the refugees, the teenager was deported to Siberia. It was there, during three years of forced labor, he was struck by the snow blindness that later forced him to wear his famed tinted glasses. Only in 1944 could Jaruzelski return to Poland, and only then as a recruit in a Polish army put together by Stalin...
...savagery of the crime and the stature of the victims guaranteed headlines from the start. Jose Menendez, a successful video mogul who ran Live Entertainment Inc., and his wife Kitty were found dead in the TV room of their Beverly Hills mansion last year, their faces blown off and bodies mangled by 14 blasts from two 12-gauge shotguns. But the story didn't make the cover of PEOPLE until seven months later, when the suspects were finally arrested. They turned out to be not a couple of Mob gunmen, as first thought, but the Menendezes' swaggering sons: Lyle...