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...attorneys' attempt to explain away plaintiff Frank Amodeo's throat cancer by saying it was caused by wood dust the clockmaker had inhaled at work, not cigarettes: "To us, that was unbelievable," Finegan said. "It was insulting to me and an incredible level of denial in the face of all the evidence and the earlier verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco Lawyers: Why This Time They Might Love to Be Hated | 7/16/2000 | See Source »

...jumping onto barbed wire, setting opponents on fire and diving onto mattresses studded with thumbtacks. And the violence seems to be trickling down from teenagers to tots. Last year in Dallas, a three-year-old boy was killed when his seven-year-old brother stiff-armed him in the throat, copying a move he'd seen on TV. Emergency rooms report a rise in injuries among backyard wrestlers. "It's scary," says Colleen Toth. "But my son does everything to make it safe. If he's going to do it, I'd rather it be in my backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburban Smackdown | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...lonely experience--full of long and wasteful hours at the Law School library. Deprived of companionship and free time, I could not bear self-restraint in any other domain. I found chocolate-covered cookie-dough balls at Broadway Market. The nuggets of crunchy sugar eventually caused my throat to ache, but the suffering and the sweetness went hand-in-hand. The bag was usually emptied before my computer could start...

Author: By Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, | Title: Sweet Dreams are Made of These | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

...Bonnie & Clyde in which he rapped about killing his ex-girlfriend (and the mother of his daughter). Since then, in real life, he has married the woman who inspired the song. But the murder fantasies keep coming. On the song Kim, he kidnaps his wife and slashes her throat, rapping, "Now bleed, bitch, bleed!" Apparently, when Eminem says, "Till death do us part," he's leaving himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Whiter Shade of Pale | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...come up with the darnedest reasons for cracking down on the fun. The league banned the throat-slashing gesture used by Brett Favre because it found the gesture "threatening...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bell Curve: Boo, Don't Ban | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

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