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...Also, once request for organ donation became required by law on the part of physicians, donations also went up. Many families feel that they can take some good from an incredible tragedy. To force these same people to donate is to underestimate the generosity of the public in a grave way. Should the media make a greater effort, organ donation will increase to a level sufficient to stave off drastic changes in law and morality...
...unprecedented raid on the Chicago office to seize financial documents. The interlocking scandals caused the transfer of the division's top three officials and the firing of a first-line supervisor (who was reinstated this year by a federal appeals court in Chicago). The experience, however, took a grave toll on the pair's careers and personal lives. For two months, Klipfel says, the couple had their children sleep in a second-floor closet as a precaution against retaliatory shootings...
Soon we'll know whether the Outlaw pulled off one last great escape. James E. Starrs, professor of law and forensic sciences at George Washington University, has been awarded the right to open up Jesse James' grave in Kearney, Mo. to settle whether James actually staged his murder in April, 1882, as some believe. Allowed 90 days to study the remains, a 15-member team hopes to determine the identity of the body in the grave, and assuming it is James, establish the caliber of bullet that killed him and the angle and distance from which it was fired...
...Parents were haunted by the stories of children stricken suddenly by the telltale cramps and fever. Public swimming pools were deserted for fear of contagion. And year after year polio delivered thousands of people into hospitals and wheelchairs, or into the nightmarish canisters called iron lungs. Or into the grave. In the worst year of epidemic, 1952, when nearly 58,000 cases were reported in the U.S., more than 3,000 people died...
When The Harvard Crimson received the picture of the late Sinedu Tadesse along with the message, "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story about her," the paper made a grave journalistic error. It did not investigate. And, although it may be true that one never knows if anonymous tips are bogus or legitimate, some of the most exciting and important news stories have depended upon such tips, e.g. those provided by Deep Throat in Watergate...