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Leverett House Master John P. Dowling was not amused. "This is a house that could very well be lost. We're worried that the slate from the roofs of Old Leverett will fly off--and they can be lethal projectiles...
John Belushi sank into a coma and died in March 1982, his body devastated by lethal dosages of heroin and cocaine, his arms disfigured by the red splotches of needle injections. A preliminary hearing started last week in Los Angeles Municipal Court to determine if Cathy Evelyn Smith, 38, a former singer and Belushi's companion during his final days, should be tried for second-degree murder in the 33-year-old comedian's death. Prosecution witnesses, among them former Saturday Night Live Writer Nelson Lyon, said they saw Smith give Belushi repeated drug injections...
...People begin acting like characters in the first reel of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign that someone has crossed over, is not himself anymore, but one of them, alien and lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either to the kingdom of life or to the kingdom of death. So the state of mind glints with a certain fanaticism. It is said that when children saw the telltale sign during the Black Death in the 14th century, they sang "Ring around...
...mentality was most evident last week in other quarters, among the mothers of New York schoolchildren, for example. A plague mentality results from ignorance and fear, but not in the way that is usually meant. When medicine is ignorant about a lethal disease, then the only intelligent approach, by mothers or anyone else, is to be fearful and intensely cautious. But, like a plague itself, a plague mentality seems an anachronism in the elaborately doctored postindustrial U.S. The discussion in recent years has gone in the other direction: Has medicine got so good that it is keeping people alive past...
...Stark of Rutgers University have written that three broad themes emerge from the literature about violence: "The importance of unacceptable levels of poverty, racial discrimination and gender inequality; the cultural acceptance of violence as a way to manage dilemmas these and other situations pose; and the ready availability of lethal agents that can be used in violence against others or self." Social scientists see additional reasons: high unemployment, drugs, gangs, and the rise in female-headed households and births out of wedlock. The rate of black teenage unemployment in the nation's cities is more than 50% in some areas...