Word: lethality
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Meanwhile, the Crimson geared up for a deluge, powered by the lethal combination of senior Amy DiMarzio and Collins...
...Hong Kong is one of the more stable denizens of a region where the once grand gown of the Asian Miracle is weekly growing more frayed and tattered. From Seoul to Bangkok, economies that earlier made annual double-digit growth look easy are now strangling on a lethal brew of skyrocketing interest rates, current-account deficits, shrinking budgets and rapid flight of the foreign loans and capital that in many countries underwrote the miracle. "Right now my feeling is one of despair," says a Jakarta stockbroker who has watched the Indonesian stock market drop 33% since July. (It was down...
...based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right way, no one would have noticed." The toxin was based on the drug fentanyl, a widely used anesthetic that can be absorbed through the skin and is lethal in large doses...
Dwight Dwayne Adanandus isn't a name you're likely to remember in a hurry. Yet the Texas penitentiary inmate made history Wednesday night when he was executed by lethal injection, becoming the 57th convicted murderer put to death in the United States this year. That's the highest annual number of executions in the last 40 years. And with three months still to go, 1997 looks set to surpass 1957, when 65 people were executed nationwide...
These were not the first lethal side effects associated with Redux and fenfluramine. When Redux was approved, both Wyeth-Ayerst and the FDA already knew that the medication could lead to a potentially fatal lung condition known as primary pulmonary hypertension. But this problem seemed to affect only a small minority of users, and morbid obesity carries significant risks of its own: heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke. On balance, the benefits seemed to outweigh the risks...