Word: bone
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During ten days in September 1976, David Leroy Washington went on a bone-chilling crime spree across Dade County, Fla., that included torture, kidnaping and three murders. After turning himself in, Washington insisted on confessing to all three murders and pleaded guilty. His lawyer, William Tunkey, opposed the guilty pleas. But then, at the special sentence hearing required in capital cases, Tunkey offered no character witnesses, introduced no expert psychiatric evidence and requested no presentence report that might have been used to mitigate the punishment. Washington was condemned to death, and later appealed, arguing that his Sixth Amendment right...
...this strange; no one seems to be afflicted by a foreboding of doom. The book ends flatly, without the customary distant rumbling of a world's end and with no sense of cautionary exhortation by the author. Any such message-that tribalistic savagery is mankind's eternal, bone-bred evil, perhaps-would be excessive. Appelfeld simply and affectingly bears witness, and in the end, his sole, muted voice is more effective than a choir and louder than a roar...
...book Life and Death on 10 West, Eric Lax ventures to the other side of the consulting room. Working with physicians, Lax explains the complexities of a radical bone-marrow transplant technique that is now proving 50% effective in treating some types of leukemia. The result is a model of medical writing for the layman. The astonishing procedure, used by Dr. Robert Gale and his colleagues at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, is described with uncommon clarity, as is the ordeal of a young woman whose cancer was obliterated but who later died of another disease. More neutral and less self...
...Sports Medicine Clinic, thought otherwise. He called Salazar's coach, Bill Dellinger: Might Salazar be suffering from a physiological condition Clements termed nonanemic ferritin deficiency? A former college running teammate of Dellinger's, Clements has theorized that ferritin, an iron complex stored mainly in the bone marrow, is used or discharged by endurance runners faster than it is replaced. The consequences, says Clements, are that "a runner would fail to improve with training." Tests on Salazar showed a low level of ferritin...
...first night is spent at Tersef, 100 miles north of N'Djamena. Supper is served in a hut of branches and millet straw. Everyone eats from the same dish, though there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...