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...transformation of urban neighborhoods into war zones has turned many hospitals into combat units. "Intentional penetrating injuries" -- which is to say, gunshot and stab wounds -- used to be rare outside the worst inner- city areas. Now every hospital sees them. At the Washington Hospital Center, the number of violent injuries has jumped 94% since 1987, totaling 681 cases last year. Gunshot wounds were up 150%. Today roughly half of those with serious traumatic injuries in Los Angeles have been cut, stabbed or shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Do You Want To Die? | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...victim was in stable condition before he went into surgery, according to Massachusetts General Hospital spokesperson David Daley. He said the man was being treated for stab wounds to the chest and stomach, but declined to identify...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victim Undergoes Surgery After Central Square Stabbing | 5/11/1990 | See Source »

...impish, Darryl Strawberry-size grin and an 8-in.-high flattop haircut that looks like a pillbox hat out of Zsa Zsa's closet, Kid (Christopher Reid) swipes audience sympathy from the get-go. Now he sits in the principal's office after a cafeteria fight with evil dude Stab (Paul Anthony). Seems Stab has branded Kid's dead mother a whore. The white principal is befuddled. "Why in God's name," she asks the perp, "did you call his mother a garden tool?" Ho', that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing The Bright Thing | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...start was less than auspicious. He joined a tiny Bavarian outfit that called itself the German Workers Party. He began making speeches, denouncing Bolsheviks, capitalists, the Jews, the French. Germany had lost the war only because it had been betrayed at home by a "stab in the back." By 1923, as the new Weimar Republic was sinking into deep economic troubles, Hitler staged an absurd "beer-hall putsch" and led a march through Munich. He was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison (he served nine months). "You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over," he declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part 2 Road to War | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...never had the feeling in high school that someone would stab me in the back," he says. "When I think of Harvard I think of that sort of thing...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: All Politics Is Personal | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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