Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, after three Followers children died what he considered needless deaths in a seven-month span, Lewman began aiding the Oregonian investigation. He says one shocking case was that of Alex Dale Morris, a four-year-old who complained of fever in February 1989. Fellow Followers laid hands on Alex, anointed him with oil and prayed over him for 46 days. On Day 44, a police officer acting on a tip paid a call but left after the boy himself claimed good health. Alex died two days later; his autopsy revealed an infection had filled one entire side...
...marriage 9 days Average space-shuttle flight 10 days Oxenberg/Evans marriage 12 days Barneys New York annual warehouse sale 12 days Shelf life of a professional pedicure 20 days Writing of On the Road 21 days Noncontested Tour de France 21 days Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman marriage 32 days Life-span of a fruit fly 70 days...
...legal battle, but the White House scored public relations points. For months the Administration had argued that if the President began to think of his bodyguards as an attachment of eavesdroppers, he would try to shake them whenever he needed privacy, with unhappy consequences for the presidential life-span. (Cut to the Zapruder film, released this month in video stores everywhere.) But in the White House, there were serious doubts all along that any court would uphold a protective privilege. Administration sources tell TIME that last week, even as the White House's argument was bumping painfully and vainly through...
...book claims to be the most comprehensive look ever at the effect of gun laws on crime, examining data from all 3,054 U.S. counties over a span of 18 years. The findings are startling. Not only did violent crime drop after states relaxed concealed-weapon laws, but it tumbled more precipitously the longer the laws were on the books: after five years, murder was down 15%, rape 9%. The two groups most vulnerable to violent crime--women and blacks--benefit the most after the easing of the laws. And in right-to-carry states, the average death rate from...
...could be as smart as C-SPAN's Brian Lamb but maybe with just a little more animation, I'd be all right...