Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was not time enough to order up special Israeli antiterrorist squads to arrive on the scene before that fatal confrontation-perhaps the most tragic failure of all. The police commander at the roadblock gave a blanket open-fire order to terrified traffic cops, and their wild fusillade when the bus was finally halted probably killed more hostages than did the terrorists. Worse, it may have driven some of the terrorists to commit suicide-and to take as many passengers as possible with them. According to an intelligence report, each Palestinian commando wore an explosive belt, and he was expected...
...Egyptian transport dropped, and a Jeep with four men aboard charged down the ramp. Firing nearly all the way, the men in the Jeep sped toward the DC-8 800 yds. down the dark tarmac. The remaining commandos moved out on foot at an almost leisurely pace. It proved fatal. "They were walking at a slow march," recalled a Western military observer who witnessed the attack. "My first thought was that this was a deliberate diversion. I was sure that a killer team must be climbing up the steps to the airplane under cover and unseen." But there...
...Harvard suffered a critical and perhaps ultimately fatal, setback in the second event, the 100-yd. freestyle. In the afternoon's trials, Mack had gone 46.06 to qualify first, while Cooper qualified second. Unfortunately, the starter fired a quick starting gun while people were still moving on the blocks in the finals, and Mack and Cooper never really recovered. Cooper took fourth and Mack sixth, while Princeton's O'Hara and Fine finished second and fifth, respectively. LaSalle's Tom McKeon won the race...
...researchers investigated the claim of biorhythm supporters that a disproportionate number of accidents and disasters-perhaps 40% to 80%-occur on "critical" days that represent only 20% of a person's life. In fact, says the Hopkins team, of 205 serious or fatal highway accidents in Maryland in which the driver was legally culpable, only 20% occurred on critical days-just the proportion the scientists expected. Says Andrew Ahlgren, a University of Minnesota researcher who studies body rhythms: "I'm surprised the Hopkins team would even bother. Biorhythm theory is a silly numerological scheme that contradicts everything...
...human brain and the rest of the central nervous system are immersed in a bath of cerebrospinal fluid, which must remain at a constant pressure. Anything that causes a significant increase in that pressure-a brain tumor, a hemorrhage, a bad head injury-may be fatal unless the fluid can be drained off in time...