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Each year about 400,000 people in the U.S. die of sudden cardiac death. Kirby said most of these deaths are suspected of being caused by ventricular fibrillation, the most fatal form of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia...
...interested in how the responses of the brain can alter the electrical activity in the heart," she continued, pointing out that such activity can be fatal, even if the victim has never had any heart problem...
Watching the videotape, thinking about the other police-brutality cases -- the alleged fatal choking of a suspected car thief by five of New York City's finest, for example -- Americans felt degrees of wonder, horror or, in some cases, disgust at the news media for undermining the police...
Until now, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder has been the most visible noncandidate, crisscrossing the country giving speeches, wooing deep pockets in Hollywood and devising a catchy slogan -- "the New Mainstream." He's even survived what might have been a fatal blunder after flying on a state-owned aircraft to visit former model Patricia Kluge, recently divorced from one of the wealthiest men in the U.S. For good measure, Wilder appointed Kluge, star of the soft-porn movie Nine Ages of Nakedness, to the board of visitors of the University of Virginia. But running in a race without challengers means never...
...reckoning, the King should step down. His decision to back Saddam's fatal plunge into Kuwait was catastrophic. If the King looked at his situation clearly and not defensively, he would see that backing Saddam was sheer folly. Jordan, bereft of financial support, is depressed and dangerously unstable. Gross national product is down 50%. The population of 3 million -- 60% Palestinian -- teems with bitter, unemployed citizens and dispossessed gulf refugees. Anti-American chants in the streets of Amman will soon turn into cries for revenge. But abdication and exile are not the King's only means of escape...