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Well, if you've taken to reading the same publications and watching the same television as I have you'd suspect the answer has to do with the basic corruption of our society. At least this much became clear to me the other day when former Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby interrupted my dinner to discuss maximum strength feminine protection...
...siege mentality, only more paranoid. In a siege, the enemy waits outside the walls. In a plague or epidemic, he lives intimately within. Death drifts through human blood or saliva. It commutes by bugbite or kiss or who knows what. It travels in mysterious ways, and everything, everyone, becomes suspect: a toilet seat, a child's cut, an act of love. Life slips into science fiction. People begin acting like characters in the first reel of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign...
...sent Duarte a message congratulating him on "the speed and professionalism" of the arrests. For all the public back patting, however, at least one of the arrests hinged as much on luck as on efficient police work. According to Reynaldo Lopez Nuila, Salvadoran public security vice minister, a guerrilla suspect identified as "Jose" had been picked up in California and, together with other illegal immigrants, was deported to El Salvador, where security police arrested him. The two other suspects, Lopez Nuila said, had been arrested earlier in an upholstery shop in downtown San Salvador. Only one of those captured...
...weapons dealers reported a booming business. The pervasive fear had been aroused by the latest foray of the so-called Night Stalker, the serial killer who entered houses stealthily and seemingly at random, attacking and sometimes killing the occupants. Anxiety subsided Saturday when police at last arrested a suspect...
Authorities said that Ramirez has a criminal record for auto theft, drugs and other, "relatively minor," charges, but that none of his past offenses resembled the violent nature of the recent assaults. Psychologists who have studied serial killings suspect that the Night Stalker shared at least one trait common to mass murderers. "Once they start to murder, the act becomes habitual," says J. Reid Meloy, a San Diego forensic psychologist. "As it becomes habitual, it becomes easier...