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...profile of Dahmer emerged that seems to suggest he fits classic patterns of a serial killer. Says Robert Ressler, a former FBI agent and a pre-eminent expert on mass murderers: "Dahmer falls into the subcategory of the sadistic, sexually oriented serial killer who is inevitably a white male loner and usually intelligent." This type of killer, says Ressler, generally comes from a broken home, has had poor parenting and/ or was abused early in his life, usually doesn't marry, is often an alcoholic or drug addict and can be suicidal. Dahmer -- who according to his father was molested...
...played by a giant clam. But the real-life monster swimming amuck in the Great Lakes is a tiny creature the size of a fingernail. With its jaunty brown stripes, a solitary zebra mussel looks cute, not threatening. The trouble is that the animal is anything but a loner, and its tendency to form colonies of thousands, even millions, makes it threatening indeed...
...right, whether Georgia or L.S.U. wins -- we're all Southerners." But he does not sound like a Southerner. When he entered grade school in New Orleans, he was teased for having a Dutch accent. (His engineer father had taken the family to the Netherlands in the 1950s.) A bookish loner in school, Duke sought out extremist mentors who treated him as a brilliant young disciple. With contemporaries he was condescending or defiant, moving to a deeper rhythm of history than they could be aware of, trying to shock them into submission with "street theater" involving swastikas and Klan robes...
...undoing it now will be nigh impossible. Baghdad radio warned that Iraq would "make Kuwait a graveyard for those who launch any aggression." The feckless international response to his muscle flexing during the past decade has nourished his belief that he has little to fear if he misbehaves. A loner, he has rarely if ever been told no -- probably because the few who tried to do so tended to wind up dead. So no one can be very sure what, if any, message will derail his ruthless drive to be the paramount power in the Persian Gulf. Fortunately, Saddam...
...surprisingly, his book portrays a loner starved for affection. Raised in California, Fossey was an awkward six-footer by the time she was 14. She loved horses and dreamed of working with animals, but her college science grades were too low to qualify her for veterinary school. Working as an occupational therapist proved an insufficient outlet for Fossey's yearnings. In 1963 she took her first trip to Africa, where she paired off with a strapping young Rhodesian farmer. An on-again-off-again engagement eventually ended, as did a later romance with a nature photographer. Her tempestuous affair with...