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History haunts Erks as "trails of blood, a web without geometry, a tangle of routes." His present is also lethal and complicated. He must drive four Chinese aliens over the Canadian border into Washington State, detour through Reno and deliver his human cargo in San Francisco. One of the Chinese is bleeding to death from a mysteriously inflicted knife wound. Another, by the name of Ginarn Taam, is being chased by the Triad, a sort of Oriental-American Mafia...
Capital punishment is most humane when carried out by 1) hanging, 2) firing squad, 3) electric chair, 4) gas chamber or 5) lethal injection...
Though Dr. Nick's testimony portrayed Presley as heavily dependent on drugs, there was still a question whether they killed him. The drugs found in Presley's body, some medical observers noted, were not at lethal levels and his longtime abuse of medication probably made Presley tolerant of high amounts. Still, several of the drugs, taken in conjunction, could have interacted with each other and produced a fatal synergistic effect. And there is no doubt that, whatever his other problems, there was no medical justification for the voracious way Presley took drugs. At week...
...madmen working on a grander scale: Idi Amin, who slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people in Uganda; the Emperor Bokassa, who brought other homicidal variations on the heart of darkness to the Central African Republic. Millions of Cambodians and Vietnamese boat people were caught in the lethal politics of Southeast Asia...
...also solar panels to catch the sun's rays, and becomes gradually opaque on the northern exposure. The principal entry points are two half-buried tubes that would serve as the major cross streets. Travel inside the dome would be by electric cars or monorail-to avoid lethal accumulations of automobile exhaust. Still, Tigan admits the project's "human dimensions" must be explored. One member of the city council, which last month approved a request for $55,000 in federal money to make the feasibility study, wondered how residents would feel about no longer being able...