Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense forced several turnovers instead of watching the Huskies run up and down the field as it had in the fatal first four minutes...
...pricey, considering that the typical Cessna sells for about $15,000. Yet many fliers may not put a price limit on peace of mind. "If you fly into a mountainside at night, a parachute is not going to help," Popov admits. "But the majority of midair collisions are not fatal in the air. You're alive all the way down." Popov believes his system could prevent more than half of the 1,000 general-aviation fatalities that occur each year in the U.S. "It's that one added bit of insurance," says Mary Jones of the Experimental Aircraft Association...
...popular movie Lorenzo's Oil did more than tout a possible cure for a rare and fatal hereditary disease. Based on a true story, the 1992 film also vilified the medical establishment for being slow to accept the possibility that a combination of vegetable oils developed by Augusto and Michaela Odone might have improved the condition of their son Lorenzo, 14, who suffers from a degenerative nerve illness called adrenoleukodystrophy. Now a two-year study from France concludes that the remedy, named for the Odones' son, is worthless -- at least for the milder, adult form of the ailment. Writing...
...first glance, they seem from another world, these harbingers of a new Chinese-American cinema. With their glimpses of swirling silks, their rapid clatter of languages, their arranged marriages, fatal renunciations, invocations of ghosts and ancestors, aphorisms straight out of a fortune cookie from one of the better Chinese restaurants, The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet look beautifully alien. But this is all a trick, to entice you with a vision of novelty. The Western viewer shortly, delightedly, discovers tales of universal savor and significance. Only the garnish is regional...
Former police officers Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn were convicted of second-degree murder last week in the fatal beating of motorist Malice Green. The ex-officers are white; Green was black...