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Clues on the body Often the most pivotal, if grisly, task is performed by the medical examiner. His job is to unravel the mystery behind three main questions...
...fired on South Korea naval vessels, killing five sailors) was the work of disgruntled military leaders trying to warn Kim Jong Il to keep a lid on change. The conventional wisdom has always been that North Korea is afraid to open the door a crack because the system could unravel so quickly. Some defectors and aid workers report that there is a sense of instability and uncertainty in the country right now. Rather than the start of reform, we may be seeing a country starting to unravel already...
...medical director of the Wellness Workshop in Spokane, Wash. "They can deny themselves, but only for so long. Then they snap. We all would." Second, we could stop paying such close attention to every jot and tittle in the diet debate. It will take decades for researchers to unravel all the reasons we eat what we do, and why we like to eat so much of it. But a few insights are emerging that should point us in the right direction, as long as we don't turn them into inviolable dietary laws...
...preceded by a pattern of abuse. There were warning signs in at least two of the Bragg cases. Married for eight years, the Griffins had separated at least twice, most recently in May. Wilma Watson, Jennifer Wright's mother, told Time that her daughter's marriage began to unravel two years ago, just as Bill Wright's assignments were increasing. After each of his deployments, their estrangement intensified. "Mommy, he's like a different person when he comes back," Jennifer would...
...Pakistani authorities have begun to unravel a web of connections between the perpetrators of those attacks and the militants involved in the Pearl murder. Last Monday a Hyderabad court ordered the death penalty for Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-educated Islamic militant, and sentenced three accomplices to life in prison for their role in the American journalist's murder. Police have since detained new suspects, who will probably also be tried for Pearl's murder. One of the suspects, Fazal Karim, has allegedly confessed to beheading Pearl at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Karachi, although...