Word: serialization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fortunately, it's not illegal yet to think of dastardly things, as long as you don't do them. But a friend of mine who's a crime writer said that we share the same interests as serial killers. We're interested in the law, and crime, and we're not going to back away from looking at a crime-scene photo, or things like that. We're always the person at the front asking, 'Hey, what would happen if the killer did this?' We're always trying to figure out those clues...
...Thierry Breton last week told oil companies to come up with structural plans (including new refining initiatives) to lower oil prices or risk a windfall tax. With oil at $63 per bbl. and oil-company profits at record highs, a new era of refinery construction seems imminent. Last week, serial entrepreneur Richard Branson floated the idea of building a refinery just to provide his Virgin Airways and other airlines with jet fuel. U.S. politicians have been putting pressure on domestic oil companies to build new facilities for some time, while China and India are already undertaking ambitious new construction. Trouble...
...very-tender account of the empty-eyed, drug-drenched L.A. teen-party scene, and along the way he acquired a reputation as a pretty hard-partying hombre himself. In 1991 he became notorious all over again for American Psycho, a semipornographic, ultraviolent best seller about an investment banker turned serial killer, which he successfully--and with some validity--passed off as an indictment of 1980s Manhattan greedhead culture...
...warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls of Samoa. Regular steamer connections with Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. meant the bestselling author could keep up serial publication of his writings. As well as novels and short stories, there were travel pieces, political reportage, poetry and prayers. Stevenson never thought small. "His wish to be buried on Mount Vaea was in keeping with that largeness," says Samoan-born writer Albert Wendt. But somewhere along...
...postmortem findings from victims' bodies, clothing and personal effects. All bodies are photographed, X-rayed and visually examined; some undergo a full autopsy. The most reliable clues to a dead person's identity are known as primary criteria - fingerprints, dental records, DNA or implanted medical devices marked with a serial number. DNA matching is the gold standard; it requires comparison between DNA from human remains and that found, say, on a hairbrush or toothbrush belonging to the missing person, or with a close relative's DNA. The family of a woman still missing last week, 27-year-old Rachelle Lieng...