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...demons have been running rampant in recent weeks. While air bags have saved more than 1,600 lives and averted thousands of crippling injuries since 1986, public attention has lately fastened on the fact that the devices, which bang open at speeds of up to 200 m.p.h., can be lethal as well. Since 1991, 51 victims--including 31 children--have been killed by air bags that slammed into them in low-speed crashes that might have been otherwise survivable. Many of the victims were not wearing seat belts. Among those particularly vulnerable: infants and small children placed in the front...
Many attendees were like Pinar Z. Yegin '98, who arrived at 1:15 p.m. for the 5 p.m. speech by the actor known for movies such as "Braveheart" and the "Lethal Weapon" trilogy...
...Commonwealth of Virginia did. It decided on Joseph Patrick Payne, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old eighth-grade dropout who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 7. Yet Payne, while hardly a model citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...
Gibson, who was born in Australia, has won two Academy Awards, both for his work starring in and directing the film "Braveheart." He has also starred in such films as "Lethal Weapon," "Hamlet...
Wrangham suggested that there might be parallels between human war and violence against women and chimpanzee lethal raiding and rape...