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Some subjects drank five cups of tea a day and others drank five cups of coffee a day for four weeks...
...doctor who had reviewed their records prescribed a toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken to a bare apartment in Zurich. They likely lay down upon two single beds, ate some Swiss chocolate to help them swallow a bitter anti-vomiting medication, and then drank the barbiturate cocktail. Within minutes, they drifted into a coma, then died. The couple had already arranged for a double coffin. Since the couple's death, Jennifer Stokes' mother and sister have demanded that Dignitas be shut down. British M.P.s have called for an investigation. "It's a terrible signal, for patients...
...really sore throat before playing during Fiddler on the Roof, so I ran to C’est Bon and bought a gallon of water. I drank the entire gallon in twenty-five minutes, forgetting exactly how long the first act of Fiddler on the Roof is. I had to actually jump out of the pit during the show to go to the bathroom and barely made it back in time to play...
...becoming a celebrity Trappist monk (his memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, was a best seller in 1948), fathered a child out of wedlock before taking his vows; later, as a middle-aged hermit with a taste for bourbon, he had a brief love affair with a nurse. Walker Percy drank too much. Poor Flannery O'Connor, crippled by lupus, dead at 39, sometimes sounded alarmingly like a racial bigot...
...insisting that too many black children were being raised without fathers; he outraged conservatives by opposing Clinton's welfare reform because he didn't want to see those children hurt. He was an avid patriot and anticommunist, especially when he served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. He drank like a fish, wrote like a dream and stood in the Senate like Cicero. He is irreplaceable. --By Joe Klein