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Loosen, who was 28 and three months short of graduating from Harvard Medical School, killed himself with a lethal cocaine injection in Texas last April...
...contrast to the "neurotic spinster ((and)) ball-busting single career woman." Or Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction, the crazed professional temptress -- beautiful, successful and mad as a hatter, thanks to the deafening tick of her biological clock. Or the Dress for Success models who, in Faludi's lethal description, "trip down the runway in stiletto heels, hands snug in dainty white gloves. Their briefcases swing like Easter baskets, feather light; they are, after all, empty...
...conventional cancer therapies: in doses sufficient to do their job, they can destroy the bone marrow, the mother lode of all blood cells, red and white. By removing a portion of the bone marrow (and purging it separately of tumor cells), physicians can go on to deliver otherwise lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy. Then they rescue the patient from certain death with a reinfusion of the undamaged marrow...
...strike until years after exposure. Unable to wait that long, scientists have tried to speed up the process by feeding huge amounts of suspect chemicals to laboratory animals such as mice. Typically they are given what is known as the maximum tolerated dose, an amount just below the lethal level. In the case of the artificial sweetener saccharin, mice were given the equivalent of hundreds of cans of diet soda a day; similarly, a person would have had to eat thousands of apples a day to get the maximum tolerated dose of Alar, a fruit-ripening chemical used by growers...
Often in the Reagan years, American covert operations (including those in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Angola) involved "lethal assistance" to insurgent forces: arms, mercenaries, military advisers and explosives. In Poland the Pope, the President and Casey embarked on the opposite path: "What they had to do was let the natural forces already in place play this out and not get their fingerprints on it," explains an analyst. What emerges from the Reagan- Casey collaboration is a carefully calibrated operation whose scope was modest compared with other CIA activities. "If Casey were around now, he'd be having some smiles," observes...