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...experiments with lethal weapons within this area be immediately ceased. If the experiments...should be judged absolutely necessary for the eventual well being of all people of this world...all possible precautionary measures to be taken (and) all human beings and their valuable possessions be transported to safe distances before such explosions occur...
...Carolina twisters formed the front line of a monster storm system that turned into a howlingly lethal nor'easter as it moved up the Atlantic Coast. On Thursday, the tenth day of spring, and on into Friday morning, heavy, wet snow, sometimes mixed with sleet and accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell from Virginia to Maine. Up to two feet of snow piled up in central New York State. Snowplows clearing runways at Boston's Logan Airport occasionally ground to a halt when their drivers were bunded in whiteouts of whirling flakes...
...problem began in the mid-1970s, when many American users began to realize just how lethal "smack" could be and when a rival drug, cocaine, rose to new prominence. With heroin falling out of fashion, the number of hardcore American users has dropped from a peak of 700,000 a decade ago to 500,000 today. The slippage in this key market coincided with a 1979 drought in the Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. The area has long produced much of the world's supply of poppies, from which opium and heroin...
...will occur to some that, in securing his post-Games position now, Ueberroth is ensuring himself against unknown risks. If the Olympics are pleasing and profitable, he will be honored for it. But any number of lethal or logistical horrors could undo his best work. "I warned the baseball owners that they were electing a commissioner who may be the most criticized man in the country for months before he even arrives." Kuhn, in letting himself in for one more season of criticism, is no more reluctant at heart than Pete Rose...
...life stories of ten families that occupy a single tenement house. No other work of Russian fiction has portrayed the everyday life of ordinary Soviet citizens with such compassion and in such mesmerizing detail. Lvov's villain, the local party boss, and tyrant of the tenement, is as lethal to the human spirit as any hound of hell conjured up by Dostoyevsky...