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...late 1989. Politics and sex were the surefire ingredients of the fraud, bribery and conspiracy trial of former Miss America Bess Myerson, and, sure enough, they are soon to be clothbound in a book by Shana Alexander, whose previous titles chronicled the murders of a diet doctor and a Utah millionaire...
Upsets struck again this year in December as Cal-Riverside stunned Big Ten powerhouse Iowa, 110-92, in the Chaminade Christmas Classic, ironically. Then, in the Utah Classic on December 28, Alaska-Anchorage handed number-two ranked Michigan its first lost of the season...
...volts of electricity, he paid with his life for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of Kimberly Leach, a twelve-year-old Lake City girl. But if his last-minute confessions prove to be true, the former law student may have killed as many as 50 young women in Utah, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Florida from 1973 to 1978, making Bundy one of the nation's most grotesquely prolific serial killers...
Bundy, who grew up in Tacoma, was linked to three dozen killings of young women. As the execution approached, he met with investigators from Western states and admitted killing eight women each in Washington and Utah and two each in Colorado and Idaho, authorities said...
...some medical experts acknowledge that Ritalin is being overprescribed. In Georgia, Michigan, Utah and Maryland use of the drug is two or three times the national average. Says Andrew Watry, executive director of Georgia's medical board: "It's seen by some as a quick fix for behavior problems." The blame belongs not only to doctors, who sometimes give little more than cursory examinations before reaching for the prescription pad, and teachers, who want their classrooms to be peaceful. It also rests on parents, who often expect their children to be stellar performers. ADHD is most commonly diagnosed in prosperous...