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...basement apartment and then, after a few weeks, disappears with Junie, the younger of Mary's two daughters. The surviving daughter, Alice, 13, grasps instinctively what Detective Jim Hackett of the department of missing persons grimly suspects: the little girl is dead, a month shy of her tenth birthday, and a madman is at large...
...until now, testing procedures were generally so haphazard and unsophisticated that many athletes and their trainers were willing to risk detection for the chance to shave an extra tenth of a second on a sprint or to lift a kilo more than a pumped-up hulk who had obviously been popping something...
...also a good way to scare the public. Paraquat can be lethal to humans if swallowed in doses as small as one-tenth of an ounce and can cause serious lung scarring if inhaled...
Suspect Dean, who maintains his innocence, is currently being held in isolation on $250,000 bail. He faces life imprisonment if convicted on charges of kidnaping, burglary and sodomy. Meanwhile, a grand jury is looking at the evidence against Williams. A softspoken, Bible-quoting man with a tenth-grade education, Williams is confident he will be vindicated. Said he: "God is on my side, and God looks out for his people...
...grain ringed by bald patches of subdivisions, the once purple mountains now mauve with smog. But the country does not age evenly. Alaska is barely in its adolescence; high tech has given sagging Massachusetts a facelift, and much of the South is having a rebirth. North Carolina is now tenth in population with the highest percentage of workers employed by industry. Unfortunately, there are signs of sclerosis in the heartland. "Sadly," say the authors, "the most resistant to change were the Midwestern states, where even in the depression of the '80s many leaders in both management and labor seemed...