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...counts of assisted suicide in the deaths of two terminally ill patients. Kevorkian was charged with assisting the suicides of Merian Frederick, 72 and Dr. Ali Khalili, 61. Frederick had Lou Gehrig's disease, and Khalili was dying of bone cancer. The two ended their lives inhaling carbon monoxide through a mask in a Detroit apartment provided by controversial doctor. Kevorkian's second acquittal in two years saved him from possible sentences of up to four years on each of the two counts.China Threatens TaiwanTAIWAN: In a move calculated to increase tensions in the western Pacific, the Chinese military launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevorkian Found Not Guilty | 3/8/1996 | See Source »

...also has a literal dark side. His most enduring pictures dare you to see in the dark. They're so heavily shadowed that your eyes have to adjust to the carbon-tone depths. In his portraits of jazz and blues artists like John Coltrane and Jimmy Scott, the darkness of the nightspots where they work is also a spiritual working condition, a favorable climate for an art in which the self might need to be in communication with its surrounding shadows. There's a different feeling to the darkness in his after-hours street scenes. This isn't just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: THE SHADOWS KNOW | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

That is crucial, observes David Des Marais, a NASA biogeochemist. Liquid water is an ideal medium in which carbon-based organic chemicals can dissolve and react with one another in myriad ways. Why carbon, necessarily? Because, says Des Marais, "it is such a versatile chemical. It makes so many different and complex compounds. And it's the fourth most abundant element in the universe." Carbon compounds literally litter the cosmos, drifting through interstellar space in giant molecular clouds and making up a significant percentage, by mass, of comets and asteroids. Some scientists are convinced that the basic building blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEARCHING FOR OTHER WORLDS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

Gelinas said the fire department tested the buildings for hazardous gases such as carbon monoxide and natural gas but detected none. Pepper spray and mace are not considered hazardous gases, however, so the tests did not rule out those possibilities...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: High School Closed by Gas | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...Michigan judge has ruled that Jack Kevorkian must stand trial for assisting two suicides in 1991. Kevorkian faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine in the deaths of Marjorie Wantz and Sherry Miller. Miller, 48, who had multiple sclerosis, died after inhaling carbon monoxide through a mask. Wantz, who suffered from chronic pelvic pain, died after using a Kevorkian device that injected lethal drugs into her system. The trial is scheduled to begin April 1. Kevorkian was already scheduled to stand trial beginning February 12 for assisting two other suicides in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEVORKIAN TO FACE CHARGES | 12/28/1995 | See Source »

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