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...converged on an area marked Omanum Emporium (the Omani Marketplace) on a map drawn by Ptolemy in the 2nd century A.D. The spot is in present-day Oman at the edge of the Empty Quarter, an appropriate designation for a trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins of a primitive fort. Using...
...hard day of sunbathing, shell hunting and rum drinking on Coco Cay's white sand beach. "Bring me another Bahama Mama," yells Danny Rivero, 23, from amid 102 degrees hot-tub bubbles high up on the ship's sun deck. Fellow passenger Renato Deoliveira, 19, obediently passes along a lethal concoction of 151-proof Myers's rum, apricot brandy, coconut rum and fruit punch, while Ted and Kay LaTour, a Milwaukee couple in their 60s, laugh indulgently and sink lower in the froth. "Supposedly we're in a recession," says Ted. "But you look around this cruise and wonder...
...charges of fraud have struck an industry already reeling from allegations of deception, greed and insufficient attention to their products' safety. The Food and Drug Administration is currently investigating an alleged cover-up by Hoffmann-La Roche of the lethal effects of its liquid anesthetic Versed, which has been linked to 40 deaths from respiratory failure. And while fraud has not been alleged against Pfizer, the New York City-based company will set aside $500 million for problems arising from one of its now discontinued artificial heart valves, which exhibit a sometimes fatal tendency to crack inside the body...
Seconds after the penalty call, Dartmouth senior Lori Jacobs accepted a lethal pass, flicked a shot past goalie Erin Villiotte and gave the Big Green a 7-6 face-saving victory...
This true story of the woman who unwittingly spread a lethal epidemic lifted documentary into poetry. Mark St. Germain's play, part fevered memory, part aborted repentance, was hauntingly staged by artistic director Gregory S. Hurst on a painterly landscape blending hospital confines with the lonely beauty of the dunes. As Mary, Estelle Parsons blazed in denial...