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...blood to the heart's own muscular walls. Physicians have long known that the dangerous clots usually form where a coronary artery is narrowed by a scaly deposit, or "plaque," of chalky, fatty material. But for all its importance, a nagging question has remained unanswered: How does the fatal clot really form...
...triage officer's pitfall," says Dr. Escajeda, "is to start helping in emergency cases. The good triage officer doesn't do that. Spending time doing the humanitarian thing for one patient who obviously needs help right now is fatal. Mass confusion results. Patients pile up, half the emergency cases don't get cared for, and the whole system breaks down...
Unhappily, as was often the case with Victorian politicians, Dilke's private life was rather less exemplary than his public activity. He had a fatal attraction to the tigress type, and during his 20s and 30s he apparently conducted affairs with three or four appallingly predatory women-among them his sister-in-law's mother...
...Fatal Split. Why did she want to destroy Dilke? Author Jenkins argues that despite his protestation of utter innocence, Dilke actually did have an affair with Mrs. Crawford before she was married; that Dilke refused to marry her; that she ruined him because he had "ruined" her. But nobody knows for certain. What is certain, or seems so on the evidence Jenkins supplies, is that Dilke was the only man who could hold the Liberals together. Within a year of his political demise the party split, and Gladstone's last administration foundered in failed majorities. One woman...
...Fatal Humiliation. Among half a dozen other gangland obituaries in the past year, the boys also recall the somber fate of Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, a gangland fixer who could smooth out any legal or political hump-and leave no tracks at all in the underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite...