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...what creates serial killers? While they tend to be cunning and intelligent sociopaths who use charm, guile, ruses and devices to gain the trust of victims, they are "failures at life," observes Birnes, "at every single level of their life." Experts blame the creation of serial killers on the breakdown of the family and physically and sexually abusive childhoods. Of the 36 serial killers he has studied, says Ressler, "most of them had single- parent homes, and those who didn't had dysfunctional families, cold and distant fathers, inadequate mothers. We are creating a poor environment for raising normal, adjusted...
Certainly Yeltsin has had health problems in the past. When Gorbachev had him ousted as Moscow party boss in 1987, he suffered something resembling a nervous breakdown. In 1990, when his aircraft made a bone-rattling landing in Spain, he sustained a serious back injury, for which he still takes medication. A host of other ailments, ranging from bad colds to kidney disease, are regularly said to plague him. But the most widely whispered diagnosis is cirrhosis of the liver, a condition stemming from chronic abuse of alcohol...
...region, and when it decided to protect the tigers, their population recovered from roughly 30 to as many as 400 during the mid-1980s. Unfortunately for the Amur, tiger-bone prices began surging in the early 1990s, just when the fall of the Soviet Union led to a breakdown of law and order in the taiga...
Most Harvard students don't care much one way or another. According to this week's Crimson survey, a majority of undergraduates can't name even two things the council has done in the past year. Apparently, there is a breakdown in the communication channels between representatives and the represented. As a result, many students are still not sure exactly how they feel about the proposed fee hike and many of those who think they know are basing their opinions on misleading information Legitimate reasons for both opposition and support exist...
...quick glance over to the bench reveals that Chris Ford is no longer coaching. After a mental breakdown following the 1993-94 season he was bumped upstairs to become the Celtics' 33rd Vice President...