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...Vincent Montemarano was acquitted yesterday of a charge that he injected a lethal dose of potassium chloride into a 59-year-old cancer patient at Nassau County Medical Center in New York, December...
...plays a key role. But two researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York now claim that it is drink alone that does the damage. A four-year study has convinced them that even in the well-nourished, alcohol can be lethal to the liver...
...Mashour took the cue to solicit bids from salvage firms in France, Italy, Holland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Mashour is close to signing a contract, probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will be no problem at all; very little of it has built up during the long...
...Mount Sinai Hospital, and Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, 61, of the American Cancer Society, confirmed the deadly relationship in studies of workers at a Paterson, N.J., asbestos plant. They documented their work in scientific papers and meetings. They also showed that even small quantities of asbestos fiber could be lethal. Selikoff studied a woman who died of mesothelioma, a cancer of the membrane that covers the lungs and lines the chest and abdomen. The woman's only contact with asbestos came when she washed the clothing of her husband, who worked in an asbestos plant...
NEARLY EVERYTHING in the exhibition has a shimmering insubstantiality to it. A pale orange silk prayer rug with silver and green blossoms, which may have belonged to the Shah himself, looks as if it would have crumbled to dust if he had ever knelt on it. Though they are lethal weapons, his damascened swords and daggers are inlaid with golden flowers and lines of flowing script. The astrolabe looks more like an extravagantly ingenious toy than a working navigation instrument. Even the coins of Isfahan look too pretty to spend...