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...told them the incinerator had broken a while back. Each day thereafter brought new appalling discoveries of bodies, some dating back 15 years or more. Fifty-seven corpses were found crammed into six burial vaults. (Each vault is designed to hold just one adult-size coffin.) So far, a skull and torso have been found in the Marshes' pond, where locals used to fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead And Forsaken | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Think of it as a blood vessel in the brain that weakens like an old inner tube, develops a blister and eventually pops, spilling large quantities of blood into the skull. That, in a nutshell, is what doctors call a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. What it feels like is the worst headache of your life. My patients have described it as a "thunderclap" in the head followed by blinding pain, nausea and vomiting. They can't look at bright lights. Their necks get stiff. Confusion sets in. Half the people who suffer through one don't live to describe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Clip Or To Coil? | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...Debbie Reynolds) are neither fawning nor vengeful. The experts (biographers Clive Hirschhorn and Stephen Silverman, critics Elvis Mitchell and Jeanine Basinger) are helpful, precise and affectionate. It turns out that even Peter Wollen, the most serious film theoretician in the English language - Lacan?s brain encased in Beckett?s skull - loves Kelly with an acute enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Dancin? Man | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

...meter diving event as sophomore Josh Gallant brought in 32 points with a score of 316.30. Princeton freshman Kent DeMond’s 311.80 earned second while Harvard sophomore Enrique Roy placed third with 302.80. Roy did not compete in this meet last year due to a skull fracture he incurred during warm...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swimming Jumps Ahead at EISL’s | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

...gave birth--three months prematurely--to her triplet sons. Weighing less than 2 lbs. each, her babies were alive, but barely. They clung so tenuously to life that her doctors recommended she name them A, B and C. Then, after a year of heroic interventions--brain shunts, tracheotomies, skull remodeling--often requiring emergency helicopter rides to the hospital nearest their rural Tennessee home, the Hickmans learned that their triplets had cerebral palsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Their Own Two Feet | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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