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...brink of failure. Engineers restored 70% of the Galileo probe's function after its main antenna failed to deploy; astronauts grabbed the Intelsat-6 satellite by hand when a less dramatic rescue technique proved useless; astronauts survived an explosion on Apollo 13 that could easily have been fatal...
Former police officers Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn were convicted of second-degree murder last week in the fatal beating of motorist Malice Green. The ex-officers are white; Green was black...
...they probably couldn't have done anything to save her. If they had known much earlier that she had been exposed to a rabid animal, she could have been treated through vaccination. But once symptoms appear (typically 30 to 40 days after infection), the disease is almost invariably fatal...
Rabies is harder to spot than many people think; its carriers do not always appear to be crazed and menacing. In fact, they may seem tame or merely sick, inviting kindly passersby to make the potentially fatal error of coming to their aid. A bite or scratch is not absolutely necessary: two victims have picked up rabies in caves from breathing air contaminated by infected bats...
...Grams, who was lying motionless. One bent over and shot him several times from close up. Then the second officer shot at Grams, but more at his stomach and legs. He shot several times." The subsequent medical examination supported eyewitness accounts: it showed that the shot that caused the fatal wound to Grams' head was fired from close range...