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...gangs, drugs and ever more sophisticated weaponry. Countywide, juvenile arrests for homicides climbed from six in 1983 to 82 last year. Admissions at Children's Hospital for gunshot wounds rose from 50 in 1989 to 160 so far this year. At Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 30% of spinal-cord injuries are caused by gunshots. Milwaukee (pop. 630,000) has responded like most cities: with more fear, bigger dead bolts and more angry debate about gun control and the breakdown of families. "We're a small enough town so that every death still really hurts," says Jeffrey Jentzen, the county medical...
...Researchers have also discovered the faulty gene responsible for a rare disorder (hyperekplexia) that causes sufferers to become stiff as a board when startled. Afflicted infants can choke or suffocate, and adults can break bones when they topple over. The gene affects sites in the brain and spinal cord that help control muscle reflex...
...history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none." Their connection to America derived instead from a reverence for the principles of the Declaration of Independence, which was "the father of all moral principle in them," according to Lincoln. This was "the electric cord . . . that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty- loving men together." The Wasp at his best was defined by his acceptance of the Declaration and other touchstones -- the Constitution, certain attitudes toward the work of his hands and the workings of his soul -- rather than by extended family ties. Being...
...been engaged in combat for about 20 minutes when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the helicopter and literally took off its tail. The crash was extremely violent; I think I have compressed my spinal cord. After the crash, a crew member took me out of the helicopter . . . then ((the Somalis)) came in masses. They beat me violently with their fists and with sticks. They tore off all my clothes." Naked, blindfolded, his hands bound, Durant was carried triumphantly above the heads of raging crowds, and "I was still being hit but less brutally. I understood then that someone had decided...
...Johnny Cage kills his victims with a bloody, decapitating uppercut. Rayden favors electrocution. Kano will punch through his opponent's chest and rip out a still-beating heart. Sub-Zero likes to tear his foe's head off and hold it up in victory, spinal cord twitching as it dangles from the neck...