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...suit. A car dropped them off just outside Jerusalem's main food market, and they walked into the crowded center of the bazaar, carrying attache cases. At 1:10 p.m., positioned 100 ft. apart and apparently in eye contact, one of them, standing in a covered lane, detonated a lethal parcel containing about 20 lbs. of TNT packed with rusty screws and nails. Three seconds later, the second man exploded his suitcase bomb along an open street crammed with lunchtime shoppers. "This is madness," cried an anguished onlooker amid the tangle of human limbs, blackened flesh, crushed fruit and building...
Some experts on murder say the term serial killer, which usually describes someone who returns to a normal routine between bursts of rage, doesn't quite fit Andrew Cunanan. They've been rolling out "spree killer." It's more appropriate for somebody on a full-time lethal tear, acting sometimes with sadistic fury, sometimes with a quick and cold-blooded bullet to the head. A theory gaining currency in the FBI is that Cunanan has been carrying out a crazed vendetta, aiming to settle scores with people he knew, that he has moved purposefully on a cross-country trek toward...
...died. About 6,400 of them keeled over in their fields on March 14, 1968, when a chemical-weapons test at the Dugway Proving Ground went awry, and the area's patriotic Mormons began asking questions. A recently uncovered Army report from 1972 suggests the sheep died from a lethal combination of nerve-gas traces and pesticides, the mixture some experts believe is responsible for Gulf War syndrome. Years later came another piece of disturbing news: it turned out that the nuclear-bomb tests conducted by the Pentagon in next-door Nevada from 1951 to 1962 were not safe after...
...continue. Tung has declared publicly that he will avoid making martyrs of those who protest before some 8,000 journalists staked out on handover night. The Chief Executive and his Beijing superiors are well aware that televised images of repression in the streets of Hong Kong would deal a lethal blow to that ephemeral commodity known as confidence, on which Hong Kong's continued prosperity and stability depend. It is the very evanescence of Hong Kong's assets that makes the transition such a delicate rite of passage...
Estrogen users with family histories of breast cancer, on the other hand, did better than many might have expected, scoring a 35% drop in overall mortality. There could be many reasons for this, says Grodstein. For one thing, heart attacks and strokes are more likely to be immediately lethal, so preventing them adds up to longer survival. For another, women on hormone therapy tend to be more closely monitored; their cancers are likely to be detected earlier...