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When doing research, some Harvard professors slip on white cotton gloves to protect 16-century manuscripts, or conduct controlled interviews in sterilized laboratories...
When asked how they could have let the most famous double-murder suspect in history slip away under their noses, the angry police commander and the tight-faced lawyer and the whole choir of commentators all said the same thing: "We never thought he would...
...Nino, still more storms are expected to savage California well into spring. Once the weather improves, debris flows will end. But bedrock landslides won't dissipate until the waterlogged hillsides drain. Long after sparkling sunshine has replaced sullen skies, experts warn, Californians are likely to find their property slip-sliding away...
...took her out of fantasy and into his and her reality," says Nettie Jones. But Bob had a volatile background. As a student at Wayne State University, he had written a column for the campus newspaper that he signed "A. Violence." As he got older, Bob appeared to slip into dementia. In 1974, a delusional Bob fired a gun into another apartment in his building in Staten Island, N.Y. It led to a seven-hour police siege, at the end of which he jumped out the window of the sixth-story apartment, proclaiming...
...nation rode on the cheers of its faithful fans to win more golds in 16 days than it had won in 70 years of Winter Games. Ski jumper Kazuyoshi Funaki assured himself of heartthrob status by flying away with three medals; more movingly, Masahiko Harada, who had let glory slip away in his final jump in two consecutive Olympics, somehow pulled off the longest jumps in Olympic history in two consecutive events to claim redemption. Roar after roar ran through the crowd, larger than in all the other arenas combined, and the grand swelling of emotion in a people...