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...most general sense who his victims might be-men or women, young or old-and could not have cared. Six bottles of cyanide-poisoned Tylenol were found in five drugstores and one supermarket; one store was in north Chicago, but the others were in communities in the western suburbs, strung out along a rough north-south line near Illinois State Route 53. The investigators' chilling theory: the murderer had driven along 53, turned off at randomly selected points and placed one bottle of poisoned capsules in each store, to be bought by the next or third or 15th...
...quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion that was unbroken amid the debris. "Everything seems to survive," he thought then, "except people." For his story, he strung those images together, a sportswriter taking the reader to places and situations in the sports world where no purchased ticket would ever permit him entry...
...freeze and the latest Kennedy Campaign are only the most recent political causes taken up by this thin high strung backer of idealistic causes. Besides working on John Kennedy's campaign Townsend was part of George McGovern's aborted presidential bid in 1972 and was environmental affairs coordinator for her uncle...
...Crimson's payoff came halfway through the first stanza. Halfback Leighton Welsh found enough space to dribble free out of Harvard's half of the field and strung a long pass to forward Richard Berkman cutting toward the Columbia goal on a breakaway...
...addition to being cheap and easily obtainable, Crotti claims that the bags have several advantages over other methods. Unlike booms or boats, they can be used in heavy seas, where they can be strung together and dropped over oil concentrations. Unlike straw, another natural absorbent, the pillows are easy to retrieve with a long-handled pole or a net rigged between two trawlers. They are very light, easy to stack and transport to spill sites. After use, they can be buried or burned without causing toxic smoke...