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...MAXWELL KILLED HIMSELF! One version holds that Maxwell took his life knowing the financial dam was about to burst. The Daily Express in London reports that Maxwell seemed agitated and depressed during his "last supper." A variation is that he was suffering from a fatal disease, supported in one tabloid by Spanish doctors...
...Males receiving it should wear a latex condom. When the woman is the receiving partner, a dental dam should be used. That is a square piece of latex placed over the vaginal area. Many pharmacies now carry dams, a nonprescription item, on racks next to condoms...
...young staghorn sculpin that in turn were food for blue herons and snowy egrets. Roughly 90% of the state's commercial Chinook salmon catch depends on the estuary, but more than half the salmon swimming up the Sacramento River to lay eggs are blocked by the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. Those that get by are often unable to spawn in overheated waters coming from drought-stricken Shasta Lake. The San Joaquin River is entirely diverted for irrigation as it emerges from the Sierra Nevada. When it resumes downstream near the Kesterson Reservoir, selenium-poisoned waters flow into it from...
...dozen or more were killed in the Battle of Blair Mountain when more than 7,000 armed miners who were trying to unionize the coalfields fought with sheriffs and federal troops. In 1960 a mine fire asphyxiated 18 miners, leaving 77 children fatherless. In 1972 a dam constructed of mine refuse burst open; its 25-ft. tidal wave killed 127 people and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes. Yet nothing has been as painful as the slow expiration of the local industry. "Coal made Logan County -- and it broke it," says county historian Bob Spence. "The people feel the rest...
...Times of London wailed, "America has flung itself again into one of the spasms of passionate moral debate that nations more tolerant of human frailty find so hard to understand." In Switzerland the Basler Zeitung concluded that "the most American aspect of the affair" was that "behind the thin dam of wordy morality, puritanical shyness and 'ethics' swirls a sea of corruption, madness and wickedness...