Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend of mine recently told me a humorous, if sorry, anecdote. She was walking through the Science Center gates on her way to class and, looking at the alluring poster-covered brick, decided to hang up a poster she had in her bag. She pulled out the poster and some tape and, probably whistling some little ditty innocently to herself, began to hang up the green construction paper--cut a piece of tape, smooth out the corners of the paper--until, BAM! Nailed by Harvard University Police officers--and fined twenty five dollars...
...five points range from allowing consumers to disconnect air bags to requiring that a new generation of smart bags be phased in beginning with the 1999 model year. Martinez says the agency has been logging up to 500 phone calls a day from worried drivers and passengers who want to shut off or disable the safety devices. "When we take the time to explain how to use them properly," he says, "the vast majority [of callers] regain their comfort with air bags." However, the recent spate of publicity has taken its toll on public confidence. Declared a bystander outside...
What happened next is a matter of dispute. Peterson has told authorities that he wrapped the infant in a garbage bag and threw it in the motel's Dumpster. He says the baby was alive. But the autopsy reveals that the boy died from multiple skull fractures with injury to the brain "due to blunt force head trauma and shaking." The implication is that Grossberg and Peterson did not merely abandon the child but beat it and killed it. Delaware has charged the youths with murder. If they are found guilty, they could be executed...
About the time most prospective parents are obsessing over what color to paint the nursery, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. were acquiring a gray garbage bag with yellow drawstrings and a map of Newark, Delaware, to help them find a Comfort Inn off the highway, where birth and death could come and go in a moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear...
...into the courthouse. But perhaps his conscience had been warped somewhere along the way by these same parents. His mother's weeklong reaction was to keep her son from authorities and consider helping him escape punishment altogether after he admitted, minimally, to putting the baby into a plastic bag and hurling it into a dumpster. She may have been modeling herself after the parents of another privileged teenager who provided their son Alex Kelly with a life of European ease after he was accused of rape. Surely a lion must protect her cub, but there's a point when instinct...