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Samples of Taylor's hair, bones and fingernails will be tested for traces of arsenic poisoning. If any are found, they would strengthen Rising's theory that Taylor was killed by proslavery Southerners angered by his support for the admission of California and New Mexico into the Union as free states. Said Dabney Taylor, the President's great-great-great grandson: "Rumors have been running through the family for years. I'm just glad somebody is finally going to do something about it." The prime suspects: Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, Vice President Millard Fillmore and two unnamed Georgia politicians...
...They will transform medicine in ways we can't even predict. I'm sure that a hundred years from now, people will look back on this era and shake their heads in disbelief in the same way that we look back on arsenic treatments for syphilis in the previous century. But that's in the long run. It's sort of a paradox. Here we have a field of research that I believe will totally change the face of medicine. The timetable is going to be slow enough that to the average person it won't seem like a revolution...
...Arsenic and Old Lace--in the Mather House Dining Hall on Friday and Saturday...
...still feed -- all of them seem to have been copyrighted by the onetime oil executive who only began writing at the age of 45. In seven novels and in the screenplays he wrote for Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock, Chandler scripted much of the unshaven poetry and arsenic idealism that form us now, and haunt us still, in Mickey Spillane beer ads and smoky urban videos, from Jack Nicholson's Chinatown to Joan Didion's Malibu...
However the transfer of property has been held up because the the church is still responsible for cleaning lead, arsenic and petroleum residues found on the lot in September...