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...eight-year-old boy tried to hang himself, and failed only because he could not tie a good enough knot. A nine-year-old girl attempted suicide twice-her mother saved her once by yanking away a bottle of rubbing alcohol she was trying to drink, the next time by grabbing her after she had swung one leg over an eighth-floor balcony. Other young children have tried to die by setting fires in their homes, jumping off rooftops, taking fistfuls of pills and slashing their wrists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Children Who Want toDie | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Those amazing Pittsburgh Pirates closed to within one game of first place last night, teaming a 12-11 win over Chicago (in 11 innings) with a Philadelphia loss, 5-2 to the Montreal Expos. The same four teams will hook up again tonight in action that could knot the NL East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

...nearby Alban Hills, he told an aide: "We do not know if we will return and how we will return." On the first day of August, the theme recurred. Driven to the wine-making hamlet of Frattocchio to visit the grave of an old friend, he said to a knot of onlookers: "We hope to meet him after death, which for us cannot be far away." Five days later, on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, the Pope was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Pope | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...final second of the first quarter ticked off, Pete Martin scored for the Minutemen to knot the score...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Laxmen Rally in Late Going, But UMass Hangs On, 12-11 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...second slot, Libby Pierpont grabbed the first set, nailing Eagle Dede Kreiger with accurate overheads and deep shots to the corners. Falling behind 3-0 in the next stanza, Pierpont came back to knot the score at six all. The nine-point tiebreaker went the distance, with the final point deciding the match...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Netwomen Smash Eagles, 8-1; Frosh Martha Roberts Shines | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

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