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...after checking into a drug rehabilitation clinic in Northern California. "He was a 53-year-old man with hardening of the arteries," Marin County coroner's investigator Gary Erickson said. "This was a mechanical process." (Two of three arteries leading from Garcia's heart had been reduced to "a pinpoint.") Heroin or no heroin, music critic Christopher John Farley says: "I'm surprised and kind of bothered that there wasn't more honest talk about the addictions that Garcia faced in his life...
...LELA ROCHON, who are all, for reasons mostly involving men, holding their breath. How did an actor macho enough to play a bomb expert in a bomb like Blown Away fare directing such a project? "It was intense," says Whitaker. "I have new insights into women. I can't pinpoint what they are, but I'd recognize them in real life...
...lost for operational reasons, Clair George, the deputy director for operations, did not agree. He told Casey, "I think we've been penetrated." Not until October 1986, however--almost a year after the CIA began to realize it had a serious problem--did it finally act to try to pinpoint the source of the trouble. George ordered Gus Hathaway, the counterintelligence chief, to appoint a small special task force to study the problem. Hathaway named Vertefeuille, who had returned from Gabon, as the head of the task force...
Caves likewise notes that academics have beenthe exception rather than the rule, and says thatit's too early to pinpoint any movement away fromacademics...
...Indianapolis and Kansas City that suggested that violent crime can be cut drastically through campaigns to locate and confiscate illegal guns. But the Fourth Amendment prohibits frisking someone for illegal weapons without a reasonable suspicion that he or she is armed and dangerous. Wilson mused that if technology could pinpoint a concealed weapon at a distance without an invasive search, it might justify subsequent frisks and confiscations, and "our streets can be made safer even without sending many more people to prison...