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...attacking an army patrol near the airport. Ten bodies of people who had been kidnaped and executed by right-wing death squads were found on the shores of Lake Ilopango. Twelve others, including five high school students, were gunned down by machine-gun fire from a passing car in random violence...
...start in just one of the body's billions of cells, triggered by a stray bit of radiation, a trace of toxic chemical, perhaps a virus or a random error in the transcription of the cell's genetic message. It can lie dormant for decades before striking, or it can suddenly attack. Once on the move, it divides to form other abnormal cells, outlaws that violate normal genetic restraints. The body's immune system, normally alert to the presence of alien cells, fails to respond properly; its usually formidable defense units refrain from moving in and destroying the intruders. Unlike...
Poison gas attacks. Napalm. Strafing by jets. Random executions of women and children...
Well before he died in January at 81, the court's crusty, most independent Ioner and liberal completed a long memoir of the nearly 37 years he had spent on the bench. Early reports are that the forthcoming book, which is due from Random House this fall, shows that Douglas was bold in setting down his often acid-etched opinions of the court and his colleagues. A former law clerk of Douglas' who has seen the early drafts describes some of the Justice's comments about his brethren as "incredibly nasty. They read like something that Alice...
Researchers at the SPH compared the use of saccharin and cyclamates by bladder cancer patients to that of a random selection of similar healthy people...