Word: limbed
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...would be nice to go on a vacation where I didn't have to worry about being ripped limb from limb by some big ursine slob. But there it is, at any trailhead worth carting your trail mix up to--the National Park Service sign saying CAUTION, YOU ARE ENTERING BEAR COUNTRY. Abandon greasy foods and perfumes, all ye who enter here! Or: Bye-bye, rule of law; hello, natural selection...
DIED. MELVIN BELLI, 88, flamboyant personal-injury and defense attorney dubbed the King of Torts; in San Francisco. Belli pioneered the use of "demonstrative evidence" (unveiling an artificial limb, baring a client's disfigurement) to win over juries, and took on a variety of mass-disaster cases, as well as representing televangelist Jim Bakker and Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...achievements of America's corporations doesn't pass the snicker test. "Chalk it up to election-year politics," says Martin Regalia, vice president for economic policy for the Chamber of Commerce. "They have to have a conference to make up for going so far out on a limb to criticize the business community...
...evidence has shown one thing: cluttered dorm rooms are firetraps, and menorahs present a clear and present danger to life and limb. Just like freedom of speech, religious freedom must step aside when obvious threats to personal safety arise...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration released affidavits given by Uydess and two other former Philip Morris employees, William Farone and Jerome Rivers, that threaten to push the tobacco industry farther out on a legal limb. All three men directly contradict the testimony of former Philip Morris ceo William Campbell before Representative Henry Waxman's 1994 congressional subcommittee. At those hearings Campbell, along with six other tobacco ceos, swore that he did not believe nicotine was addictive, and that Philip Morris did nothing to manipulate or increase nicotine levels in its products...