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...vague, but apparently someone called the sniper tip line Wednesday night claiming responsibility for the sniper attacks and urged police to "check out Montgomery." An investigator thought to look beyond Montgomery County, Maryland, where many of the shootings occurred, to Montgomery, Alabama, where police are still looking into a fatal robbery that took place on September 21st...
...early June, two individuals were involved in a non-fatal shooting in Area 4, a neighborhood north of Mass Ave. between Central and Kendall Squares...
...French diver who sought to break the world free-diving record by descending to a depth of 171 meters on a single breath, attached to a pulley and a 90-kg weight; off the coast of La Romana, Dominican Republic. Mestre reached the target depth but suffered a fatal accident while surfacing, disqualifying the bid. She was posthumously awarded the world record?breaking the previous mark of 162 meters set by her husband, Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras?for a 170-meter test dive made three days earlier...
...Greene novel The Quiet American deals with that time in the '50s when French colonialists were stumbling out of Vietnam and U.S. "advisers" were tiptoeing in. Despite the mounting carnage, Americans held fast to what they considered their ideals. As Alden Pyle, Greene's title character, says of one fatal explosion on a Saigon street: "What happened in the Square today makes me sick. But in the long run I'm gonna save lives...
...Fortunately for most, the virus is fatal in less than 1% of cases, although its symptoms?blinding headaches, spiraling fever and extensive body rash?can make death look attractive. Doctors sometimes confuse a dengue case with ordinary flu (the sensitive, pinkish rash is often the best indicator of dengue). But the worst suffering rarely lasts more than a week. Treatment consists of little more than bed rest and nonaspirin painkillers...