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...Colorado State University. She is well known not only on the medical-conference circuit for her insights into Asperger's but also in the meat-packing business for her advice on the humane treatment and disposal of livestock. Among her contributions is a design for a curved slaughterhouse ramp that is said to reduce animal anxiety by keeping hidden the high-tech poleax that dispatches the critters...
...between the Algerians, who were adamant that the plane stay in Algiers, and the French, who wanted it on their territory so they could deal with the situation directly. Things came to a head late on Dec. 25, when the terrorists laid down an ultimatum: if the boarding ramp was not pulled back and the plane was not allowed to take off before 9:30 p.m., they would kill a hostage every half hour. Their first victim, they said, would be Yannick Beugnet, a cook at the French ambassador's residence in Algiers. He was brought to the cockpit...
...spite of the gunshots," she says, "we were reassured by the orders they were shouting to us, the impression that the situation was in hand. We crawled to a rear door, jumped into the void and landed on a chute." Another passenger, traveling with his family, saw a mobile ramp full of gendarmes pass his window and knew an attack was imminent. "I told my wife and children to duck down," he recounts. "There were explosions, gunfire, but we didn't see anything. That's all. I had the impression that it only lasted a quarter of a second." "There...
...days to confess to the drownings of her two children after faking a carjacking in Union, S.C.; today a grand jury deliberated less than three hours before indicting her on murder charges in connection with the incident. Smith, 23, was officially accused of pushing her car down a boat ramp into John D. Long Lake on October 25 while her kids, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex, plunged to their deaths while strapped in their car seats. Prosecutors haven't decided whether to seek the death penalty. Smith's lawyer, David Bruck, said today that his client...
...lives to protect us all from any grief or harm." On the night of the alleged murders, Smith writes, "I had never felt so scared and unsure as I did then. I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck." She adds that after she allowed the car to roll down a boat ramp into the water...