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Anna, a thirtyish schoolteacher, contracts Acquired Toilet Disorder (ATD), a fatal scourge confirming what every mother already knew--that no good can come from using bathrooms at bus stations. Anna (Francesca DelBanco) and her brother Carl (Michael Stone) set off on a wild trip across Europe, in part to see the cities they've always dreamed of, in part to search out a mysterious quack doctor touting a remedy based on the drinking of, well, urine...
...example, aborting a fetus with a fatal genetic defect may hold different implications than absorbing one in which the "abnormal" gene is less severe, as in Down's syndrome...
...President on down couldn't turn their eyes away -- had not felt the sleep-depriving, soul-splitting pressures of parenting and worried about their own capacity for violence? But this was not the typical child murder, the experts rushed to explain, not an outburst of uncontrollable rage turned accidentally fatal. This was cold calculation. Parents who began the week trying to explain to their own children about Stranger Danger ended it having to explain something far scarier...
...signs." Murder "is usually not the first assault on the child," explains Jill Korbin, an anthropology professor at Case Western Reserve University and author of a study of women incarcerated for deadly child abuse. "These women often let others know about incidents of abuse prior to the fatal incident. But many times, the seriousness of the incidents isn't recognized...
USAir -- the target of ongoing study since two of its jetliners were involved in fatal crashes this year -- criticized a report published Sunday by The New York Times, which claimed the airline has allowed jets to leave gates without enough fuel at least nine times and once used a jet for 13 days despite a dangerous crack on its wing flap. USAir said it had followed federal guidelines in all these cases except an emergency landing at La Guardia, in which it said personnel deviated from established refueling procedures. (USAir says it suspended the pilot and first officer without...