Word: mm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truck. A friend took the wheel of the GMC Suburban, and the rapper got into the passenger seat (he didn't have a driver's license). Moments after they left the parking lot, according to witnesses, a lone gunman in a passing car fired several shots from a 9-mm handgun through the passenger side of the vehicle, hitting the 24-year-old rapper. He died on the way to the hospital...
...Nicole le Douarin in Paris, with whom he worked for a year, Balaban cut tiny windows in the shells of fertilized chicken and quail eggs that had incubated for a couple of days. Guided by special stains developed by the French researcher, he probed the embryos' minuscule, 1-mm- to 2-mm-long neural tubes (out of which the brains develop), removing cells from the chickens and replacing them with corresponding cells from the quail. Closing up the windows, he returned the chicken eggs to the incubator, allowing them to hatch at a normal 21 days, whereupon they soon began...
...survey of 30 years of research on blood pressure showed that churchgoers have lower blood pressure than nonchurchgoers--5 mm lower, according to Larson, even when adjusted to account for smoking and other risk factors...
...several hundred Lebanese, most of them noncombatants, had been killed or wounded. Still, for the first seven days, Israelis applauded the offensive, and much of the world tolerated it. But even the vaunted Israeli military machine proved no better than its crudest cog. On the eighth day, when 155-mm howitzer shells crashed into a U.N. post and slaughtered more than 100 Lebanese refugees, wounding at least 100 others, it was a shattering reminder that there are no such things as truly smart weapons--or wars...
...pockets of a black coat he carried four loaded handguns--two Browning 9-mm automatics and two .357 magnum revolvers--plus a packet of bitterly angry letters to British news organizations detailing his grievances against the town for treating him as a "pervert." He apparently stopped to mail the letters, which reached their destinations two days later. Then he went directly to the school. He was at the entrance at about...