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...Poison in Parked Cars...
Prosecutors sifted 17,000 pages of pre-trial testimony before coming up with a 700-page indictment that describes in detail how prisoners were slain with pistols, poison gas, clubs, bottles, and by trampling, hanging, drowning, freezing, injections and electrocution...
...engine running. Carbon monoxide, in such heavy doses, is one of the deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage to the brain...
...were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth. Sonnet 107 therefore could only refer to the Queen's safe survival after the attempt of her Spanish physician, Dr. Lopez, to poison...
Emma was married to Thomas Hardy for 38 years.* Her style as a literary wife is suggested by the remark she made about the admiring ladies who thronged about her husband in London after he became famous: "They are the poison," said Emma complacently. "I am the antidote." Emma never let Hardy forget that his literary reputation was vastly inflated, and after she failed to talk him out of publishing that "vicious" novel Jude the Obscure, she lost virtually all interest in her husband's writings. But at the same time her interest in her own innocuous poems continued...