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...Brother Jim didn't surrender that day at the RV. He watched his freedom unraveling from the shadows of the Pace Arrow motor home. A fugitive who had just surrendered--Randy Halprin--suggested to the surrounding police that Brother Jim would like to call his father. A cell phone was offered, via police bullhorn. There was no response from the man in the Pace Arrow. Then gunshots were heard. When authorities entered the motor home, they found Brother Jim dead, a suicide note placed on the pages of an open Bible...
Confusion over right of way at crosswalks is the cause for many accidents. Massachusetts state law states all motor vehicles must stop for pedestrians under penalty of a fine. Yet while the law may be clear, motorists often ignore the rules for a variety of reasons...
...DEGAS TO MATISSE COCKTAIL BUFFET Ford Motor Co. and the Phillips Collection welcome the new Administration and members of Congress. A great time for Dick Cheney to work on that bipartisanship thing. The Phillips Collection...
...sport-utility vehicles regain their reputation? Last week the struggle was taking place in many forms. Ford Motor Co. settled a high profile, megamillion-dollar lawsuit by Donna Bailey, a single mother of two who was paralyzed when the Explorer she was in rolled over after a tire separation on a dry, uncongested highway in Texas. The next day, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration released "rollover" ratings to help consumers figure out which cars and trucks are more or less prone to do just that. Most cars received top marks on that count...
...University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recently spotted the same mutation in the DNA of 10 schizophrenic patients. The flaw was in a gene on chromosome 1 called RGS4, which controls the duration of signals in a nerve cell. Intriguingly, the mutation showed up in the brain's visual, motor and cognitive centers. That could account for schizophrenics' hallucinations and attention problems, says team leader Pat Levitt...