Word: chest
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The U.S. chief of naval operations, Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda, died Thursday at his Washington Navy Yard home apparently of a self-inflicted shot to the chest. Boorda, who went by the name of Mike, was the Navy's top uniformed officer and had succeeded Admiral Frank Kelso II as chief of naval operations after the Tailhook scandal. "Admiral Boorda was highly respectable and respected," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "He was never a scandal mongerer and there is a lot of speculation among the top Admirals why he would do this." The 57 year old Boorda...
...dingy workingman's cafe in Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel; he has been repeatedly arrested for petty...
...going to show that we can be competitive," says Charles Gargano, chairman of New York's Empire State Development Corporation, which dispenses tax breaks to recruit and retain big businesses. The state agency recently kicked in $26 million to a $99 million war chest that New York City hopes will keep both the Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange and the New York Cotton Exchange from moving to New Jersey with their 5,000 jobs...
...popular term Siamese twins originated with a celebrated pair named Eng and Chang, born in Siam (Thailand today) and exhibited across the U.S. from 1829 to 1840. Eng and Chang, who lived to the ripe old age of 63--still a record for conjoined twins--were connected at the chest by a flexible band of cartilage. (Modern surgeons could have separated them easily.) Connections at the chest and abdomen are the most frequent configuration for conjoined twins, though medical texts list more than a dozen possible permutations. Dicephalic twins like the Hensels, who have two heads but share...
...campaign. As soon as it is feasible, campaign manager Reed hopes to transfer much of the opposition research and field organization to the Republican National Committee, and throw in some Dole travel expenses too. The goal is to preserve what remains of Dole's $7 million war chest for the California contest...