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...knew that people were fascinated by the story in the slightly prurient way that we all can't help but look at the slow-motion video of a car crash. And, yes, I knew that as an editor I could fashion some journalistic angle that would justify dwelling on the morbid tick-tock of the killings. We could look at post-partum depression or why she "snapped", or the role of the father or her doctor or any number of possible explanations...
...pounding on the fire truck door. My cell phone isn't working inside the reptile cage so I have to run down these narrow hallways filled with snakes and lizards and all this scary shit back and forth to check on Phil and get this thing in motion, so I start pounding on the side of the fire truck saying 'I need an ambulance, I need an ambulance.' They said they don't have anything that we don't have here. I said 'you don't have a stretcher and this man needs to go to the hospital...
...Because when Cal Ripken, Jr. announced Tuesday he would be retiring from baseball at the end of this season he not only set in motion an unofficial farewell tour, lit up switchboards at Major League Baseball ticket offices across the U.S., and placed one very large burden his manager, Mike Hargrove - he also ended an era that began when Ronald Reagan was a rookie president and signaled the passing of a time when ballplayers were synonymous with only one city...
...which New World organisms lacked resistance--tagged along with the Stone Age hunters who first ventured into the New World. Once again this pathogen (which could have been carried by dogs or vermin) need not have killed every single animal to have set the wheels of extinction in motion. During the late 19th century in Africa, for example, native antelope, wildebeests and other ungulates were decimated by rinderpest, a disease spread by imported cattle...
...sweltering corrugated-roofed shed on the Thai-Burmese border, 24-year-old Chinaka hits the canvas in the third. It's not the first time this bout the Burmese has gone down, and the beatings have taken their toll: he seems to be swimming in slow motion on the dirty floor. As he inches on his stomach across the ring, the crowd screams at him to get up while his Thai opponent, fighting the referee's restraint, presses to finish him off. Chinaka's eyes are frosted and bloody from three fresh cuts on his right brow. Giving...