Word: five
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...month trial turned on the question of whether the Twitchells were guilty of "wanton and reckless conduct" in not seeking medical help for Robyn, who died in April 1986 of a bowel obstruction, after five days of illness. The parents, who had summoned a "spiritual healing" practitioner, maintained that their son had shown only intermittent flulike symptoms and seemed to be recovering just before taking a fatal turn. But medical experts testified that the child would probably have been feverish, vomiting and in obvious pain before his death. Had he been taken to a doctor, they asserted, the boy would...
This week's cover features five twentysomething adults. From left, they are: John Neubauer, 27, of Baltimore, a teacher; Raul Alvarez, 23, an auto mechanic in Ventura, Calif.; Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver, a communications and business student; Sonja Henderson, 23, an art student in Chicago; and David Robinson, 25, a graduate student in English at the University of California, Berkeley...
...with sudden jazzy inflections) and a knowing turn of phrase. (Examples: "I got stopped by a cop for oblivious driving"; "Instead of Nero/ We got Madonna/ She's fiddling with herself.") The son of a UCLA political science professor, Baerwald was born in Ohio and at the age of five trailed his father's academic career to Japan. When he was eleven, the family returned to Los Angeles, where he eventually drifted into the music slipstream and decided that "the only way to play rock music was to live." That meant skipping college. That meant parental disapproval. That meant some...
...Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...
...first sign of trouble came barely five minutes after Mikhail Gorbachev opened the 28th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party last week. A delegate from the far eastern region of Magadan proposed an unprecedented resolution, calling for nothing less than the resignation of the entire Central Committee and its ruling Politburo. The daring delegate also wanted the party leadership to tell the 4,657 delegates why so little had been accomplished since the last party Congress, in February 1986, which had launched Gorbachev's ambitious -- and increasingly beleaguered -- program of perestroika to transform the Soviet Union...