Word: neck
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...back, "That's hockey." The two men scuffled, and Junta left the arena. He returned and repeatedly whacked the ref, knocking him out, as the children, including Junta's son and three of Costin's, watched in horror. The force of the blows ruptured an artery in Costin's neck, resulting in a severe brain hemorrhage. He fell into a coma and died the next...
...look less threatening. He had interviews with every kind of business from messenger services to department stores including Macy's and K Mart but received not a single viable offer. The kinds of jobs he was most likely to get he couldn't take. Because of an old neck injury, he can't do heavy manual labor--a common problem among former inmates, who, because of their intimate history with violence and needles, tend to have far more medical problems than average Americans. He responded to an ad in the paper for a bathroom-attendant firm in Manhattan. Impressed...
...people he had to report to, including his family, and he ran out of fingers. When he missed a drug-treatment meeting to go to a job interview, he had to defend himself to an irate caseworker. "It's like they got a rope around your neck, a rope around your feet, and they just tug on you because they can," he said...
...Rosenthal's step points yet again to the difficulty of finding anybody in this neck of the woods who hasn't taken money, been employed by, or been burned by, Enron...
...week, could be just the thing. Like many PCs today, the new iMac is built around a flat-panel display. But instead of taking up precious desk space like a typical flat monitor, the iMac's 15-in. screen floats in the air, attached to a jointed, chrome-pipe neck. It's also rimmed by a "halo," a translucent plastic frame that makes you want to pull it toward you--or push it out of the way. Jonathan Ive, chief of Apple's ID lab, says he designed it so that you would want to touch it, want to "violate...