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When 44-year-old John Powell died at Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital last | March, doctors were not surprised. Powell had suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident and had been comatose for eight months. But an autopsy revealed that Powell had actually died from a lethal dose of cyanide received shortly before his death. After a brief investigation, Donald Harvey, a 35- year-old orderly at Drake, confessed to the killing...
...fists and shouting as if with one voice, "Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!" The clutches of women dressed in black chadors, the phalanxes of men bearing placards that said DOWN WITH U.S.: the angry scene had been played out before. This time, however, the crowd seemed reinvigorated, its fury fresh and lethal. "Death to America!" they chanted in the near 100 degrees heat. Their rage rose higher still as Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, called upon Allah to "avenge the blood" of nearly 300 Iranian pilgrims who had been killed a week earlier in Mecca, Islam's holiest city...
...wait! It's Indiana James to the rescue! In Timothy Dalton's interpretation in The Living Daylights, one finds some of the lethal charm of Sean Connery, along with a touch of crabby Harrison Ford. This Bond is as fast on his feet as with his wits; an ironic scowl creases his face; he's battle ready yet war-weary. And in the age of AIDS, even Bond must bend to serial monogamy; this time, for reasons of plot and propriety, he's a one-gal guy. Dalton performed a lot of his own stunts, and he looks great...
...running them on treadmills until they are exhausted. The pit bull's jaws -- which can exert as much force as 1,800 lbs. per sq. in. -- are strengthened by swinging the dog on a rope, its teeth clamped to a tire. This, she says, makes the animal a "lethal weapon. They hang on until their prey is dead." Such techniques, says Franklin Loew, dean of the Tufts University veterinary school, turn the dogs into "time bombs on legs." Many are used for high- stakes dog fighting, which has a sizable nationwide following, even though it is a felony...
...killings seem to have ended, police are unsure whether the murderer is dead, has moved elsewhere or is just lying low. Indeed, despite the use of the most modern techniques, thwarted investigators know very little about this killer except that his primary targets are young prostitutes and that his lethal attacks may involve a repertory of strangulation, bludgeoning and sexual assault...