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When Kurt Cobain took his life at the peak of Nirvana’s popularity in April 1994, critics were quick to draw comparisons between his suicide and the accidental death of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Superficial parallels were quickly noticed—Cobain and his loudmouthed peroxided wife, Hole front-woman Courtney Love, were habitual heroin users; Vicious and his notorious bleached-blonde companion, Nancy Spungen, were also well-known junkies. Cobain and his wife even checked into hotels under Vicious’ real name, John Ritchie. Still, the most common association made between the two musicians...
...about 12:30 p.m., a heavily armed SWAT team clad in bulletproof gear and helmets entered the building with shields, special entry gear, a battering ram and fiber-optic equipment, which the police used to peak under doors in the hotel. The Boston Police Bomb Squad arrived shortly after 1 p.m., and four Boston ambulances waited outside with lights flashing, including a special tactical response unit with EMTs in bulletproof vests and helmets...
...fact that as a rule, country doctors are not as up-to-date in procedures as city physicians. There may be other perception problems as well, adds Boettcher. "While there are certainly good doctors in rural areas, you can often find doctors here who are not at the peak of their careers - possibly just starting out, or nearing retirement, or perhaps trying to escape from problems elsewhere...
...college life. Helping new students survive has, in our judgment, become an essential responsibility of every college. That task takes on new urgency this year, as the children of baby boomers swell the freshman classes of many universities to record numbers in a dorm-bursting wave that won't peak until the end of the decade...
...productivity miracle of the mid-nineties, Greenspan himself was used to catching hell from politicians who always felt that the economy could grow faster - and employ more voters - without fostering inflation. Behind supposedly arid terms like "sustainable growth" is the assumption that for the economy to work at peak efficiency, a certain amount of people must be out of work...