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...streets across the nation, dealers whispered offers to almost anyone who walked past, and sales were made on footpaths with nonchalant ease. "It was the height of the madness," recalls Melbourne outreach worker Richard Tregear. The drug was everywhere, and as purity rose so did the risk of a fatal overdose. In Melbourne, paramedics like Lindsay Bent were frantic. During those "crazy couple of years," Bent says, it wasn't unusual to treat 18 overdoses in a day in the cbd alone. It's not like that now. When Bent last checked his team's supply of naloxone, which...
...every Harvard student, the charge of plagiarism could prove fatal to one’s undergraduate career. From the outset, students are forewarned of the College’s daunting zero-tolerance discipline policy; that is, whether inadvertent or otherwise, according to the student handbook, plagiarism of any sort “will ordinarily result in disciplinary action, including but not limited to requirement to withdraw from the College.” But, it seems that this stringent policy—aimed to ensure sincere and scrupulous scholarship—does not extend to members of Harvard?...
...this week, Kerry's predicament will probably get worse before it can improve, which is why his recent slide, however modest, is so troubling to Democrats. With just two months to go before Election Day in this remarkably tight race, even a slight slip in the polls could prove fatal. --By James Carney/Washington
...Navarra's clan after World War II. With his buddy Totò Riina, the young mobster then served as muscle for ambitious boss Luciano Liggio, who once reportedly said that Provenzano "has the brains of a chicken but shoots like an angel." In 1958 Riina and Provenzano led a fatal ambush on Navarra, riddling his car with 112 bullets, leaving Liggio as the undisputed godfather. An internal Mafia war followed, and Provenzano disappeared into the hills in 1963. Liggio was arrested in 1974 and died in prison 19 years later, leaving Riina as the top boss and Provenzano...
...clouded leopards have never been known to attack humans. In the U.S., 17 people have died from mountain lion attacks over the past 100 years; many more are killed by lightning in a single year. This year, however, California has had three attacks by mountain lions on humans--one fatal. All involved hikers or bikers in cougar country; their rapid movements were probably triggers for attack. Says Boyce: "It is simply humans being in the wrong place at the wrong time...