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When Françoise Cochet saw the cord around her son's neck, she knew that he was dead. Fully clothed and still wearing his sneakers, 14-year-old Nicolas had strangled himself sometime after dinner in their apartment in Nice, France. His mother found him the next morning. "I shut the door so my other two children couldn't see, and I didn't touch the body," she says. "I thought that I couldn't live anymore. I thought I needed...
Known by various names around the world - including funky chicken, space monkey, sleeper hold and the blackout, choking or fainting game - the activity involves applying pressure to the neck to stop the blood flow to the brain and then releasing the pressure to create a temporary sense of euphoria. It isn't new: French medical books mention the scarf game as early as the 18th century, and deaths in Britain, Canada and the U.S. have occasionally made the headlines over the years. What is new - and frightening - is that teenagers are now uploading instructional videos to the Internet that glamorize...
...fund. The system facilitates cross-selling to existing customers while allowing Santander to cut back-office staff drastically (Santander never cuts the flesh pressers out front). In Abbey's case, total employees dropped from 25,331 to 16,489, while costs have come down from 70% of income to around 40%, in line with Santander's overall cost-to-income ratio. The average cost-to-income ratio in this sector of the U.K. banking business is 55%. Those cost savings translate into lower lending rates, which has allowed Abbey to regain its share of the mortgage market and then some...
...correspondent reported that, as of two days ago, snow still covered about half of the sidewalk around the building, leaving only a narrow walkway. (The sidewalk outside The Crimson, by the way, is fully cleared...
...Other Jewish leaders from around the world have also reacted with consternation at the move toward beatifying Pius XII. Although the naming of saints is an internal matter for Catholics, David Harris of the American Jewish Committee said "the church's repeated insistence that it seeks mutually respectful ties with the Jewish community also means taking our sensitivities into account on the Holocaust era." (See pictures of President Obama and the Pope...