Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of boobisms add this by a TV newsman: "another fatal killing...
...rain a year, usually all at once, vs. 36.5 in. in more fertile northern Pakistan, near Kashmir. In summer, temperatures can rise to 130° F. In winter, they can fall to subfreezing levels. Desert scorpions and other noxious fauna abound. Prolonged exposure to Baluchistan can be fatal: when the army of Alexander the Great marched across it on the way home from India, two-thirds of the men died. But local folklore has it that Baluchistan's towering hills are carpets covering vast troves of mineral wealth. "We have a saying here," beams one local leader, the portly...
...stands: Bantam's The Suicide Cult and Berkley's Guyana Massacre. Produced by teams of journalists, the "instant" books, as they are known in the trade, feature photographs, background chapters on the Peoples Temple and firsthand accounts by reporters who had accompanied Representative Leo Ryan on his fatal journey...
Some never find salvation or happiness. San Francisco has the highest suicide rate and one of the highest alcoholism rates in the nation. Despite constant closed-circuit television monitoring, there have been 642 known fatal leaps from the Golden Gate Bridge. Last week, after the horror in Jonestown, the Suicide Prevention Center reported that the number of calls from desperate citizens had increased...
When the time to go did come, though, Margaret Mead was ready. When she learned last year that she had a generally fatal form of cancer, she refused to let it slow her down. Instead, the scientist who had spent a lifetime observing others turned her still keen powers of observation on herself, and continued to keep her thorough records on her own process of aging. Her attention was appropriate. Of all the people she studied, few were as interesting as Margaret Mead herself...