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...summer's end, the headaches had grown so intense that Cassidy pleaded once more for help, and his doctor prescribed methadone, a powerful narcotic. The next day, calls to Cassidy's cell phone from his wife Melissa went unanswered. After two more days without word from her husband, she frantically called the Army and urged that someone check on him. Nine hours later, two soldiers finally unlocked the door to his room. They found Cassidy slumped in his chair, dead, his laptop and cold takeout chicken wings on his desk...
Melissa was unable to reach her husband on his cell phone later that night or the next day. By Thursday, she became anxious after he had failed to respond to her four messages. On Friday morning, she called and found his voice mail was full. Moments later, her apprehension turned into panic when she dialed into his cell-phone messages and found he hadn't listened to any of them, including her good-night call on Tuesday...
Martin promised he would find her husband, but when she hadn't heard from him by 6:45, Melissa placed another call to Martin's cell phone. "I haven't got in yet, I haven't got in yet," Martin told her, voice shaking. "Let me call you back, sweetie." Then he hung up. "I knew," Melissa says quietly, "something was terribly wrong...
...find the online networking site particularly intrusive. “I think it’s slightly invasive, but no more invasive than other forms of communication,” he said. “It concerns me as much as everything else—like cell phones, e-mail, invasive advertising, the military-industrial complex.” Until this week, there were no clear instructions for removing one’s Facebook page. The process required “deleting everything that is related to your profile,” according to the growing Facebook group...
While much of the money is intended to shore up the Commonwealth’s position as a center for biotechnology, a significant share of the funding is expected to be used for stem cell research at universities like Harvard and the University of Massachusetts...