Word: gunman
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...mysterious incident involving celebrity anchor Kevin Hollander (Alan Alda, in a stonier version of the egomaniacal media mogul he played in Crimes and Misdemeanors). The worldly, ambitious Brackett is earger to regain his position at the network. So when he finds himself locked in a museum with unstable gunman Sam Baily (John Travolta at his raunchiest), a class of rowdy schoolchildren and a developing hostage situation, he's overjoyed to have found his ticket back to the big leagues...
...rifle from beneath his blue trench coat and opened fire, wounding seven schoolmates and killing two, Lydia Kaye Dew, 17, and Christina Menefee, 16, a girl he once dated. He was subdued by assistant principal Joel Myrick, who pulled a .45-cal. pistol from his car and ordered the gunman to the ground. "Mr. Myrick," said Woodham, "I was the guy who gave you the discount on the pizza the other night." Woodham had been hoping to make the assistant manager's program at the local Domino...
Three are killed, four more hurt as a teen gunman goes on a rampage in Mississippi (Reuters
Joos, a man who would carry a spider outside rather than kill it, tried to tackle the 6-ft. 3-in., 240-lb. Drega. But the gunman shook him off as they struggled on the hood of a car, then shot him several times. Drega got back into the cruiser and sat parked in front of the police station for several minutes. The police officers were all up at the supermarket, responding to the first shootings. Next on Drega's hit list was another Columbia selectman, Kenneth Parkhurst; Drega kicked down the door to Parkhurst's house and found nobody...
...compelling is that unlike cholesterol, which everyone knows is associated with coronary problems but can often be treated only by medication and a rigid diet, homocysteine appears to respond to nothing more demanding than eating more vegetables and taking a few more vitamins. Homocysteine is certainly not the lone gunman of heart disease, but the studies strongly suggest that it's at least a co-conspirator--and one that patients can do something about. "This is very convincing," says Dr. Jacob Selhub of Tufts University in Boston. "Homocysteine appears to be a risk factor for heart disease...