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...after most political organizations in Iran had been driven underground and their leaders jailed, Yazdi and his wife Sourour left for the U.S., where he studied at several universities, including the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. A specialist in cancer research, he eventually became a supervising pathologist at the Veterans Administration hospital in Houston...
Police will not discuss the Ripper's trademark murder technique, because they fear that lurid revelations might inspire other killers to imitate his grisly methods. Some details, however, came out at an inquest on Jean Jordan, the Ripper's seventh victim. At that proceeding, a pathologist reported that the victim had been slashed and mutilated in a style reminiscent of the original Jack the Ripper. In 1888 a rapacious killer whose identity has never been established savagely murdered five prostitutes in London's East...
...realistic detective story. The author's acuity of observation and penchant for statistical minutiae makes each character convincing and interesting. A significant portion of this short novel consists of meticulous descriptions of the victims and the circumstances of their deaths, making The Chain of Chance both a forensic pathologist's delight and a challenge to armchair sleuths, because, hidden among the barrage of details are the clues to this mystery. To understand them one might have to be pre-med, but the novel's tendency toward the arcane does not greatly detract from its suspense or from the fascination...
DIED. Elvin C. Stakman, 93, pre-eminent plant pathologist who led the war against wheat diseases; in St. Paul. Combating the fungus diseases called rusts, he attached Vaseline-coated slides to plane wings in 1921 and by collecting the parasitic red spores in the air, proved that the disease blew seasonally across the nation. A member of the University of Minnesota faculty (1909-53) and the Rockefeller Foundation, "Stak" increased the world's wheat yields by breeding new, hardier strains as the fungi also continued to evolve. "Find out all you have to buck," he once said, "and then...
Less easily disposed of were some nagging questions about the episode, ranging from the whereabouts of millions of dollars amassed by Jones' cult to the exact causes of all those deaths. In the case of Jones, said Baltimore Pathologist Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker last week after examining the bullet wound in the cult leader's head, "it looks like a suicide...