Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from being an isolated outrage, such a botch-up is shockingly common, claims Baden, co-director of the forensic sciences unit of the New York state police. In a new book, Unnatural Death (Random House; $17.95), he and co- author Judith Adler Hennessee present a fascinating and disturbing picture of a shamefully inadequate U.S. coroner system. About 7% of the 2 million Americans who die annually meet an untimely end, by murder, suicide or accident. By law, such deaths must be investigated. Though the public may believe that every coroner is a skilled sleuth like television's Quincy, fewer than...
...apparently uncovered by a videotape, common-law suitors are often betrayed by photographs, and, in response to all this, more and more people choose to interface, date or even make love over the phone. If a modern Juliet were to try to reach her lover before feigning her own death, she might well hear, "Hi! This is Romeo! Nobody's here right...
...mixed emotions: hostility, hatred, anger. At that point, it was just welling up in me. I felt like I was in a pressure cooker. To be truthful, if I had had a gun -- and I'm scared to death of them -- I would probably have blown his brains out because I felt 'You have no right to come to me like this. I've done nothing to anyone.' If the people around me had ignored me, acted like I didn't exist, that would not have disturbed me one bit because I've been black all my life...
Reality: Terrorists are the people who place bombs in the suitcases of their unsuspecting girlfriends. A death is a sacrifice to God. A dead brother is a martyr, not a victim. Bartering with terrorists constitutes either a bill too large to pay or a technique too unreliable upon which to depend...
When my parents got on the phone, I told them I had stared death in the face...