Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Severe invasive group a streptococcus is the official scientific name, but labels like "deadly flesh-eating bacteria" can be too deliciously terrifying to resist. That's what British tabloids decided when they learned that the germ had caused a mini-outbreak of lethal infections in Gloucestershire last month, bringing the death toll in England and Wales for this particularly virulent form of strep to 11 for the year. The papers fanned fears with such headlines as EATEN ALIVE and KILLER BUG ATE MY FACE. And when a handful of cases, including at least one death, were reported...
...missiles, with many of those deeply dug into the ground. The most urgent job for aerial forces would be to blunt the North's offensive with antiarmor smart bombs and cluster bombs. Southern airfields have strengthened their defenses, and the arrival of Patriot missiles should help fend off lethal Scuds...
...story is nothing much: Maverick trying to round up the money to enter a high-stakes poker game before it starts. Writer William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Richard Donner (the Lethal Weapon series) both seem to understand that the TV Maverick offered tinkly satirical relief from the other Western programs of the day, which took themselves so seriously. If the filmmakers lose the show's sharpness by converting it to the large screen with broad gestures, they can live with it. Doubtless all the rest...
...Although lethal injection has become the most popular method in most states because of its pain-free "humaneness," in eight cases before Gacy's it was anything but. The most heartrending: the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, sentenced to die for murdering a policeman. On Jan. 24, 1992, in Conway, Arkansas, loud moans spilled out of the death chamber as technicians kept Rector tied down during a search for "good" veins. Attendants were about to prepare a "cut-down," in which the arm is sliced open to insert an intravenous catheter, when a vein in his right hand was finally...
...hell, and its commemoration, while less lethal, can be just as bedeviling. For the past eight years, technicians at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum have been meticulously restoring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that in 1945 dropped the first atom bomb, destroying Hiroshima and leading to the end of World War II. An exhibit centered on the front section of the plane's fuselage is scheduled for next year's 50th anniversary of the bombing. But Air Force veterans have seen the 559-page proposal for the show. And they are feeling nuked...