Word: necks
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Theodore Kaczynski has been placed under a 24-hour suicide watch after trying to hang himself with his underwear Wednesday night. Police said they discovered the attempt only after spotting him in court with red marks on his neck...
Sonny Bono, the former pop star who went on to a national political career, died in a skiing accident yesterday afternoon. Bono, 62, skiing alone on the slopes in South Lake Tahoe, slammed into a tree and sustained fatal head and neck injuries, an accident that eerily echoes the death last week of Michael Kennedy...
...somewhere near the Austrian border--but how near? Soldiers marched by, dogs barked, flares lit the night. Then a voice cried out, in Hungarian, the words paralyzing him with fear: "Who is there?" Even 40 years later, as he laughs at the memory, his eyes harden; he shifts his neck under his collar. Had the smuggler betrayed him? "We thought, 'Shit, this is it.'" The man shouted again. Now at the limits of his courage, the boy finally answered: "Where are we?" "Austria," came the reply. The relief poured cool as the rain. Andras Grof, a name he would later...
...misery loved the company. The years of anguish produced rich rewards made possible by some neck-snapping breakthroughs. The key to the success dated back to an insight Moore had in 1965. Sitting down with a piece of log paper and a ruler, he drew a simple graph. On the vertical axis he tracked the growing complexity of silicon chips, along the bottom he ticked off time, and then he plotted the points out a few years. The resulting line, he saw, showed that chip power doubled roughly every 24 months, even as costs fell by half. The rule (amended...
...could make circumstantial connections all day, but the fact is that in key aspects of character and plot, Interview With the Vampire and The Wings of the Dove spin strikingly similar stories. Sure, their twinship isn't biting anyone's neck just yet. Still, the similarities are telling and important, and all the more interesting for the fact that they are unlikely to receive much comment or notice...