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Though forecasters had issued warnings an hour in advance, 47 people died and hundreds of others were injured last April when a monstrous tornado demolished large sections of Wichita Falls, Texas. Curious about just how the casualties had occurred, a team of epidemiologists, most of them from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, decided to investigate. Their study, published in Science, shows that 26 of the deaths and 30 of the most serious injuries occurred in motor vehicles. Most of these victims had tried to outrace the storm, many of them apparently influenced by longstanding federal guidelines that urge...
...ancient Polish family. He traveled around Europe sculpting public monuments and seducing women: at the time Misia's mother was pregnant with her in Belgium, her mother's own aunt in Russia was also pregnant by Godebski. Having trekked to St. Petersburg alone to confirm this monstrous news, Mme. Godebska died in childbirth. Misia grew up mostly in Parisian convents...
...surprising, therefore, that the sudden appearance in 1945 of nuclear weapons should have been received in the United States in a manner consistent with the positivist outlook. American intellectuals who addressed themselves to the question of their implications, assumed from the beginning that there inheres in these monstrous tools of destruction a logic obligatory on all who possessed them. That logic, in their view, rested on several related propositions: (1) that nuclear weapons were so destructive in their immediate application as well as after effects that they threatened not only the victim of aggression but all humanity, the aggressor included...
Novelli's biggest single headache is a monstrous migraine: terrorism. As the home of Fiat's giant works, Turin is targeted by the radical left as the stronghold of Italian capitalism. Three weeks ago, still another Fiat official was almost routinely shot in the legs as he walked to his home in a Turin suburb. The "kneecapping" was the city's 124th terrorist attack to take place in 1979. Novelli insists that this pattern of violence "has not interrupted the carrying out of our duties for one hour. We have given Turin a government. In the five...
Sentiments for war are running high on both sides. We must resist these tendencies because the costs to everyone are too high. We appeal to your integrity and intelligence to raise your voices against the presence of a criminal of monstrous proportions in this country, if not for sympathy for the Iranian people for the values you aspire to yourselves...