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...ones are prosecuted. Sippe Schat, a doctor from northern Friesland, goes on trial later this month for the alleged murder of a 72-year-old cancer patient who had seemed in good spirits just before she died in a nursing home. According to prosecutors, Schat simply gave her a lethal shot of insulin without consulting anyone and left her to die alone, allegedly telling a nurse as he left, "If she hasn't died by 7 a.m. tomorrow, give me a call...
...gets closer, what looks like a sea of stars metamorphosizes into a myriad of glass bubbles, stretching from the floor to the ceiling and spanning a length of about 20 feet. According to one of Reynolds' assistants, the approximately ten thousand inch-wide bubbles may look lethal to touch, but they break more like cellophane than like glass--no dangerous shards, only a delicate cracking and crumbling...
After developing open blisters during practice, Castellano's hands were exposed to the Charles River water. Soon thereafter, Castellano was diagnosed with a potentially lethal staph infection in his blood. Castellano explained that the coaches of the crew team remind the rowers often to clean their hands and sterilize the blisters because of the potentially dangerous water and, further, that he did not follow the coach's directions. John A. DeHoff '00, another first-year rower diagnosed with blood poisoning earlier this year, emphasized the scarcity of such infections: "A lot of people row on the Charles, and this doesn...
Well, not quite. Ovitz spent Christmas hopping from his new yacht, The Illusion, in the Bahamas to Auldbrass, Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver's estate in South Carolina. From there he headed to Aspen, Colorado. He returned to Los Angeles to attend the funeral of Phil Weltman, his mentor at the William Morris Agency...
...Condom Week is predicated on the assumption that people are having sex, the more central issue is that sex--at least sans condom--is dangerous. As one of the wittier posters made clear, sex with a condom is like sleeping with a lifeguard; sex without it, however, is commensurably lethal. Although the sponsors of Condom Week cushioned their message in fluorescent-colored poster paper and humorous ditties, the essence of their project was to spread the word that sex, despite the casual tone, is far from casual. At the most literal level, the promulgators of the condom ethic are telling...