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...comfortable, middle-class Bergenfield (pop. 25,600) is what psychologists call the cluster effect. "After a suicide, there is always an increase" in copycat deaths, says Herbert Nieburg, a psychologist in nearby Westchester County, N.Y., where six boys from the area killed themselves in separate incidents over a four-month period in 1984. The impulse to imitate a suicide can be powerful, especially among adolescents, who tend to romanticize adventure and recklessness. "Kids see that this is a glamorous way to die, a way to get a lot of attention that they couldn't get in life," says Pamela Cantor...
...news conference was the first since Nov. 19, a four-month period of political and personal trial for Reagan...
...Pripyat) has low banks, which is important during the four-month spring flooding when water inundates significant areas," Oleinik said...
...took an 8.7% position in CBS stock until warded off with a lawsuit. Finally, in April 1985, Atlanta Cable-TV King Ted Turner launched his own $5.4 billion bid to take over the network. Turner may not have had the resources to do the job, but his noisy, four-month assault had to be taken seriously...
...After a four-month respite that, coincidentally or not, followed the U.S. air attack on Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, Middle Eastern terrorists were on the rampage once again. Only hours after the bloody denouement in Karachi, masked Arab gunmen stalked into an Istanbul synagogue during the morning Sabbath service and, firing machine guns, murdered more than a score of Jewish worshipers...