Word: pauling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DRIVER Postmortem tests showed that Paul was legally drunk and under the influence of two prescription drugs on the night of the accident. Less known is the fact that Paul's blood contained an abnormally high level of carbon monoxide (CO): 20.7%, enough to provoke somnolence, severe dizziness or even put some people in a coma. "I don't see how he could walk in that state, much less take the wheel," says the head of the antipoison center at a major Paris hospital...
...Paul's CO level got so high remains a mystery. He could not have breathed exhaust fumes in the tunnel, since he died instantly of a severed spinal cord. If exhaust had leaked into the car's interior en route to the tunnel, all passengers would have been affected. But Dodi's autopsy showed no significant trace of CO. One possible source might be a faulty heater. But the heating systems in Paul's apartment and office, unused in August, were found to function normally. Experts say a "massive" exposure to certain industrial products, like the solvent dichloromethane, could produce...
...Fayed lawyers say the two men erred by not insisting on a backup car, by allowing Paul to take an indirect route down a dangerous stretch of road, and in Rees-Jones' case, by putting on his own seat belt without insisting that the others do the same. Should one or both bodyguards decide to take legal action against the Fayed camp, they can expect to face some severe countercharges...
...vied for the best photo angles. Stephan confronted them with eight witnesses on June 5, but many discrepancies remain. Road tests last May proved that all the motorcycles and scooters involved in the chase were powerful enough to keep up with the Mercedes. Lawyers for the photographers argue that Paul's drunkenness and reckless driving caused the accident, and point to the Ritz's responsibility in allowing Paul to take the wheel. Lawyers for the Ritz-Fayed camp claim that the aggressive pursuit by the paparazzi was the main "causal factor" behind the speed and choice of itinerary leading...
...called the Nabis, or Prophets, that had formed in 1889 in Paris. They believed in taking art down to its essential flat patches of color, strong boundaries, tapestry-like abutments of form and a general emphasis on the decorative. Their prototypes came from Japanese prints and the influence of Paul Gauguin. And they had close ties to Symbolism. Their literary god was the poet Stephane Mallarme, who had conceived of poetry as a structure of words and absences: "To conjure up the negated object, with the help of allusive and always indirect words, which constantly efface themselves in a complementary...