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Published last April, the Suicide Mode D'Emploi ('Suicide Operating Instructions') has already sold 50,000 copies. Publisher Alain Moreau predicts it will bring in $210,000 this year. Attempts in France to ban the book--which contains a chapter of 50 easy, painless and lethal "recipes"--have ranged from the Roman Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health to the parents of one of the 10 people thought to have succeeded in killing themselves by following the book's advice...
...three years ago co-authored Energy Future: The report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, argues in his essays on energy and the U.S. that without proper precautions America over the next 20 years could easily face a major energy crisis and in turn a lethal threat to its national security...
...Medical School professor's planned genetic-engineering experiment that would use a lethal diphtheria toxin has drawn criticism from some leading genetics experts who are worried that the experiment may be too risky...
...back up the charge that the Israelis were using lethal cluster bombs supplied by the U.S. in civilian areas, the P.L.O. last week put on display parts of one type of the weapon that it claimed had been found in Lebanon. The U.S. had provided the Israelis with two models of the bomb, both of which work on the same principle. The Mark 20 Rockeye scatters eight-inch steel darts and the Cluster Bomb Unit 58 sprays bomblets armed with a charge that explodes on impact (see diagram). Because the bombs indiscriminately blast an area several hundred feet in diameter...
...LETHAL LITTLE OLD LADY