Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strange twist of fate and connections, however, I got in about an hour before the rest of the men, just in time to see the male strip-show. As the stripper stood on the bar and disrobed a willing teenage girl, the bartender suggestively sprayed the crowd with soda water. The sounds of moans and screams issued from the speakers, and hundreds of drunken women screamed for more, and I realized that I was not at the Grille anymore...
STARKE, Fla: The Black Widow is dead. Former nail salon owner Judy Buenoano, who poisoned her husband, drowned her paralyzed son and tried to kill her fianc? with a car bomb, met her fate in a Flordia electric chair at 7 a.m. Monday morning. She became the first woman to be executed in the state in 150 years, but there the comparison with Karla Faye Tucker ends. Buenoano, 57, showed no remorse for her killings. Prosecutors, who gave the Black Widow her creepy-crawly nickname, say she bumped off her family for the insurance money. Like Tucker, Buenoano said...
...avoid the same fate, Jones' lawyers now argue that Clinton was more aggressive in the hotel room than Jones said in her original 1994 complaint. In her recent deposition, Jones said that Clinton in fact tried to grab her crotch and kiss her and that he briefly blocked her way--not simply that he had lightly touched her, as Jones first said. These elements make the incident sound much more "severe," especially coming from her ultimate boss. (Courts are tougher on accused CEOs than accused co-workers.) Clinton's attorneys, who contend that the new details are lawyer-induced embellishments...
...FATE OF ICE BABIES...
Your report on the birth of babies from long-frozen embryos [SCIENCE, March 2] may lead readers to think that in-vitro-fertilization clinics are less than forthcoming to parents about the fate of unused embryos. In IVF clinics, all of a patient's embryos are accounted for. The truly pressing issue surrounding frozen embryos is abandonment. IVF clinics throughout the world often become the guardians of unclaimed frozen embryos because couples lose contact with the lab either by choice or by not supplying forwarding addresses. Clinics must then decide whether to destroy the embryos after a certain period...