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Doctors at a Harvard-affiliated hospital have discovered a ground-breaking test which they say will facilitate earlier and more accurate detection of one of the most lethal cancer forms...
...anything, lethal injections, firing squads, and electrocutions will soon prove too boring for American audiences. After the novelty wears off, Nielsen ratings will begin to drop, and the state's "producers" will have to come up with a more captivating formula. The process might degenerate into a variant of "Wide World of Sports"--gladitorial contests, or maybe criminals fighting off wild animals, running hundred-yard dashes through machine-gun fire, attempting broad jumps across impossibly wide flaming pits--a veritable Olympics! Can one popularize state executions...
...discussions of whether or not the club should be closed, it has been argued that the Pi Eta performs a vital function for the Harvard community. I know of no services given to the community by the Pi Eta, with the possible exceptions of loud parties for its members, lethal amounts of alcohol for its members, and, as the newsletter points out, unlimited sex for its members. While social functions are unquestionably important and an integral part of any college experience, they are not enough to tip the scales in favor of this organization. It the Pi Eta does serve...
...those who are able to leave their lethal city stay on? When asked if he will flee, Moyse responds, "To where?" Many residents have learned to tune out the chaos, though that gift carries its peril. Caught in the middle of a blazing gun battle near the Beirut airport, an old farmer continued to till his tiny plot. Afterward, when asked why he did not seek cover, he replied, "If I waited for the fighting to stop, I would never get the soil ready for planting. The seasons don't stop for wars." In its own weary, puzzling, stubborn...
DIED. Ronald O'Bryan, 39, the so-called Candy Man killer, who was convicted in 1975 of poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween sweets; by execution (a lethal injection of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride); in Huntsville, Texas...