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...could get worse. Families USA, a public-interest group critical of the law, will hold town-hall meetings with seniors in 22 cities over the next 11 weeks to point out flaws in the measure. HHS spokesman Bill Pierce accuses Democrats of trying to poison seniors' attitudes toward the new law with "cynical politics." Republicans are hoping it will get a warmer reception by June, when seniors can start buying drug-discount cards from Medicare. Administration officials estimate that the cards, which will cost up to $30 annually, will save seniors 10% to 25% per prescription. --By Douglas Waller. With...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Anyone for a Drink? The University of Manchester admitted employing a man who'd earlier been jailed for attempting to poison his wife. His new job: lecturer on medical ethics. Paul Agutter was convicted in 1995 of lacing his wife's gin and tonic with deadly atropine. To cover his tracks, he placed bottles of tonic water spiked with the poison on supermarket shelves. The University said it had followed "due process" in the appointment...
Abbot would become a philosopher and minister after moving beyond Ivy walls. But after the deaths of five of his eight children and his beloved Katie, Abbot penned his final entry on Oct. 22nd, 1903—a suicide note. Two days later, Abbot imbibed poison over his wife’s grave, exactly 10 years after she had died...
...height of Shoko Asahara's power as leader of the apocalyptic Aum Shinrikyo cult, followers paid exorbitant sums for the honor of drinking the guru's blood. Since 1995, when Aum carried out a poison-gas attack that killed 12 people in the Tokyo subway, the rest of Japan has been baying for his blood as well. Last Friday, after a nearly eight-year trial, a Tokyo judge finally sentenced Japan's most reviled man to hang for masterminding the subway attack and 15 other killings by the cult. With 11 of Asahara's former followers already sentenced to death...
...North Korean prisoner told the BBC that she’d once been commanded to poison dozens of fellow inmates. “An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners,” Sun-ok Lee claimed. “One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women.” She went on: “All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes...