Word: death
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Because the caches nosed out by doggy detectives may be uncut and especially potent, even small ingestions can be extremely dangerous, sometimes causing death on the spot. An article that Beasley and a colleague published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends, among other things, that police carry artificial resuscitation devices for their four- footed friends and a supply of activated charcoal that the dogs can swallow in solution to absorb most drugs before digestion. Because dogs, unlike their masters, just...
...Fundamentalist Christian sects. Knowing the nonbeliever's weakness for social-science data, he begins by preaching the gospel according to George Gallup. Nine Americans in 10 say they have never doubted the existence of God. Eight in 10 fear they will have to answer for their sins. Life after death is a reality for 7 out of 10. More important, Wills notes, Americans vote their religiosity. All candidates must invoke the Deity or face rejection on Election Day. And there are indications that the voters want more than lip service. During the 1988 presidential campaign, two surprisingly strong candidates...
...women who fell for Taylor were, to put it mildly, unlucky in love. He abandoned his first wife when she was nine months pregnant and tried unsuccessfully to chloroform his second to death. Taylor brutally assaulted his third bride -- bright, insecure, eager-to-please Teresa Benigno of Staten Island, N.Y. -- on their Acapulco honeymoon. A year later, he bludgeoned her to death with a barbell, drove about the country for four days with her , disfigured body in the trunk and then abandoned car and corpse in eastern Pennsylvania. Under police questioning, he confessed to the crime but claimed that...
Once the avoidance begins to work, the patient cares less about the diagnosis. Fear loses its power to instruct. Urgency vanishes before magic. The country glides into a toxic subjectivity. The eyes glaze a little, and clouds close over the glimpse of death. The problem will vanish, the earth will get well. The mind billows off to locate better memories, if it can (old glories, myths of its own innocence, old muscles, resources long since squandered, wars won when the nation was young and saved the world, when its virtue shone and sped by on tail fins). Americans con themselves...
...touch, and you've lost them: your wallet from the back of your trousers or your manhood from the front. The rumor about vanishing male genitalia started sweeping Lagos two weeks ago, and by last week the capital was in a panic. Frightened mobs lynched or beat to death at least a dozen suspected organ robbers in crowded markets and bus stations, where being jostled by strangers is a fact of life. Nigerians were convinced that magicians could remove the male jewels at a touch, making them reappear in Lagos' witchcraft markets on sale for thousands of dollars...