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...many deaths are being attributed to heart attacks on insufficient evidence, said the New England Journal of Medicine, because doctors find it convenient to enter coronary disease on death certificates. When 911 such certificates in Pennsylvania were checked, probable errors were found in at least 27% and perhaps as many as 63% of them...
...cities of Hazor and Gezer, also attributed to Solomon, had a different kind of wall, and he wondered why Solomon did not build the same style of fortification around all three cities. Following his hunch, he led a group of student-archaeologists to Megiddo. In three days he found what he was looking for: an earlier wall in the style of Hazor and Gezer. This wall, he believes, was really built by Solomon. The later wall and the stables were probably built by Ahab, who became King of Israel 50 years after Solomon's death (about...
...object to his marrying Jezebel, a Phoenician woman who was cursed by the prophet Elijah. Eventually, a later conqueror fulfilled Elijah's curse by having her thrown from a window, trampled to death by horses, and eaten by dogs. "And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands...
When the news broke that the FBI had found Spears in Phoenix, Barker was right on hand with Mrs. Spears. "It was luck, really," recalls Eddie Barker. "I was sitting there talking with Frances when my office called me. They read me the flash about Spears. Frances was standing there with the baby in her arms, and I told her. She suddenly blurted out, 'I told him it wouldn't work.' At that moment, I knew I had the story. But Frances turned on me and said, 'Eddie, don't you dare tell anyone about...
...Founded when the Union Jack fluttered from Surrey to Singapore, the Illustrated London News has survived and prospered as the embers of empire flickered. Main credit for its adjustment to the changing times rests with Editor Ingram. On any Monday morning, Ingram can be found on hands and knees in his office in Ingram House drawing up I.L.N.'s layouts. Picture news ranges from comprehensive coverage of major events to one-shot side-lights that add up to a sophisticated sampling of the week's events. Backstopping the pictures is a concise commentary that follows Ingram...