Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nurse Richard Angelo of Lindenhurst is arrested for administering lethal doses of muscle relaxant to patients, as part of a scheme to make himself look like a hero by reviving them...
...team almost killed people at the (Eliot House) Fete with the drinks they were making," said Eliot House Committee Chair Gina V. Sanchez '94. "Some of the drinks they were serving were lethal...
...still ticking. Rand Corp. study for the U.S. Pentagon warns that the world will accumulate enough plutonium -- the radioactive ingredient used in many nuclear warheads -- to build 87,000 "primitive" bombs by 2003. Weapons dismantled by the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. will account for 199 tons of the lethal substance. Adding to the problem will be more than 300 tons of plutonium extracted from spent uranium fuel retrieved from nuclear power plants. "Separated plutonium held in inventory," says the report, "could be diverted and reworked to make it weapon-ready in only days or weeks...
...Hantavirus, the mysterious and lethal disease carried by rodents, has so far afflicted 42 people in the U.S., killing 26 of them. Now scientists are discovering new variants of the disease among different species of rodents living in Europe, raising concern that fresh outbreaks may occur...
This week O'Brien is sweating out the case of Lloyd Schlup, 32, a man who has been in prison for nearly half his life and who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Friday unless Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan commutes his sentence. Schlup, who was originally imprisoned for stealing a pickup truck in 1978, was convicted for assisting two other men to stab a fellow inmate to death in 1984. Since taking on the case in 1992, O'Brien, a former public defender who now runs the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, has collected...