Word: deadly
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...surprisingly, Thomsen's "dead man walking" status officially changed late Monday, when the SEC announced that its top cop had decided to call it quits and return to the private sector. Thomsen joined the agency in 1995 and became its enforcement chief...
...raging infernos that have left more than 160 people dead in southern Australia burned with such speed that they resembled less a wildfire than a massive aerial bombing. Many victims caught in the blazes had no time to escape; their houses disintegrated around them, and they burned to death. As firefighters battle the flames and police begin to investigate possible cases of arson around some of the fires, there will surely be debates over the wisdom of Australia's standard policy of advising residents to either flee a fire early or stay in their homes and wait it out. John...
...that had been unfolding over the previous few hours. Fueled by 115 F degree (46 C) heat and powerful northerly winds, the fires were laying waste to houses, schools, whole towns. On Sunday morning, as the weeping, blackened survivors emerged from the ruins telling of horrific scenes of bodies dead beside the roads and of missing relatives and neighbors, the full extent of the disaster began to dawn...
...When I die, I want a steaming hot Reuben sandwich shoved in my mouth during the open-casket part of the funeral. 9. I cry during Robert Downey Jr. movies. (See the top 10 movies of 2008.) 10. My friend Brian and I once brought home a dead opossum because we wanted to "stuff" it. We tried to cut off its head with hedge clippers, but it was late fall and the creature was far too frozen. 11. I make my own Spice Girls clothing and accessories. 12. I listen to the soundtrack of Sweeney Todd while shaving. 13. Fetuses...
...like an invitation." But it was an order, the first of many Mellinger would obey. He started his military career as a clerk in what was then called West Germany, and was looking forward hanging up his uniform after two years of service. "I was dead-set on getting out," he says. "We had a lot of racial problems, drug problems, leadership problems." But his company commander talked him into re-enlisting. The lure: the chance to join the Rangers, the elite warrior corps that Mellinger came to love (his 3,700 parachute jumps add up to more than...