Word: corded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year later, when neighbors told police that the five children were routinely being left at home alone. By the time they removed the kids, Yummy was a bundle of anger and scars. He had long welts on his left leg; police suspected he was beaten with an electrical cord. There were cigarette burns on his shoulders and buttocks. "I never beat my kids," Lorina insists to this day. She says the scars were caused by chicken pox, not cigarettes. "I gave him all the attention I could," she says of Yummy, but admits there were distractions...
...frozen-dessert evidence is mild stuff compared with the theory provided to TIME last week by a defense-team lawyer. "I think this is the work of a Colombian-type killer," he asserted. "When you see a throat cut nearly through to the spinal cord, that's often a message that the voice box has offended, or is expected...
...People who sustain spinal-cord injuries are often rushed into surgery; the idea is to relieve swelling and thus reduce the chance of permanent paralysis. But this may amount to taking an unnecessary risk. A study has found that one year after the trauma, people who went under the knife immediately were no better off, on average, than those who didn...
Sometime after midnight, a neighbor out walking his dog found the bodies. Nicole, wearing only a nightgown, lay in a pool of blood, her head severed to the spinal cord. A barefoot Goldman lay nearby, his body laced with signs of a ferocious struggle and 22 knife wounds. It was the neighborhood dogs that sounded the alarm, their paws spreading a bloody mosaic on the sidewalk around the house. One of the first cops on the scene, a longtime veteran, said, "It was the bloodiest crime scene I have ever seen...
...most postpolio experts favor a competing theory that says wear and tear on the nerves is to blame. Polio initially attacks the nerves by invading the body through the mouth or nose, traveling through the bloodstream to the spinal cord and lodging in the nerve cells that control muscle activity. As the disease progresses, nerve cells in the spinal cord are damaged or killed, paralyzing muscles that lead to the arms, legs, stomach and chest...