Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...board. A case in point is that of Dr. Akio Wakabayashi and the laser surgery he developed. He was at the University of California at Irvine in 1989 when he experimented with a new treatment for clearing the airways of emphysema victims. Seven of his first 56 patients developed fatal complications. Some of his colleagues suspect that the Irvine review board found the numbers worrisome; Wakabayashi claims the university "couldn't buy the equipment I needed." Whatever the reason, he transferred to Chapman General Hospital, just 10 miles away, where he continued his experiments...
DETROIT Woman's fatal plunge after altercation on bridge tarnishes city's already troubled...
...They should move away from Fuhrman and, frankly, it is surprising to me that they've indicated that they are just not going to do that. This could be the worst mistake of the trial. Apparently, the prosecution believes they can't afford to lose Fuhrman. It may be fatal to their case...
Jerry Garcia used heroin within days of his fatal heart attack, but drugs did not play a direct role in his death, according to a coroner's report released today. Instead, the Grateful Dead guitarists's his heart simply gave out. Garcia died Aug. 9 after checking into a drug rehabilitation clinic in Northern California. "He was a 53-year-old man with hardening of the arteries," Marin County coroner's investigator Gary Erickson said. "This was a mechanical process." (Two of three arteries leading from Garcia's heart had been reduced to "a pinpoint.") Heroin or no heroin, music...
Frightened by the fatal poisoning of influential banker Ivan Kivelidi earlier this month, Russia's nouveaux riche businessmen held a protest in front of the former KGB headquarters in Moscow to protest the slayings of nearly 50 of their contemporaries in the past year. Arriving in chauffeured armored limousines and surrounded by burly bodyguards, the businessmen demanded a government crackdown on crime...