Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aging apartment hotels, were uncommonly empty. In the past eight weeks, seven middle-aged men, most of them down-and-outers, had been found in doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within the l-sq.-mi. Skid Row area, their throats slit deeply from ear to ear-and the killer had always struck on Wednesdays or weekends. Los Angeles police call him the Slasher; some vagrants of the neighborhood have dubbed him the Head Chopper...
...precise, elegant understatement, a portrait of a peasant aristocrat in an ill-fitting suit. His movements are sure, deliberate, catlike, his eyes icy; he is most frightening in a single, beautiful smile that seems the last flicker of human warmth in a young man resolved to become a killer...
...million years (v. 5 million for man) to the time the first cetaceans abandoned the land and took to the waters. Of the 87 species still extant, the biggest is the blue whale, whose tongue alone weighs as much as an elephant. Most highly developed is Orcinus orca, the "killer whale," which may be the only higher animal on earth that knows no fear. Then there is the humpback whale, renowned for its intricate but remarkably precise "songs," and the river dolphins that navigate far inland during floods, remembering underwater topography so well that they never get trapped...
According to an early theory, the strain may have been caused when the mild Hog Flu virus, which sickened hogs but not humans, combined with a relatively harmless bacillus to produce a virulent man killer. But in 1918, 25 years before the electron microscope made it possible to see viruses at all, there was no way to discourage advances from the Spanish Lady. Paranoia often took the place of ineffective remedies. There were those who thought the bug was the Kaiser's secret weapon, despite the losses his own troops suffered. In Poland, the source of infection was said...
...pressure. They are more fortunate than most of the 23 million people in the U.S. alone estimated by the A.H.A. to be suffering from the disease. They know about then" condition and are under treatment. Most hypertensives are not even aware that they are being stalked by a quiet killer that often produces no symptoms until it is too late. The A.H.A. believes that less than half of all hypertensives know that they have high blood pressure. Even worse, according to the A.H.A., only half the hypertensives who are aware of their illness are under treatment to control their blood...