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...murders started in September 1982, when the parents of Mary Kellerman gave the 12-year-old a painkiller when she woke up complaining of a cold. She died hours later. Postal worker Adam Janus died in another Chicago suburb later that morning. Janus' brother and his brother's wife, complaining of headaches while mourning Adam, died too. In a few days the death toll grew - the only link being that each victim had taken Extra-Strength Tylenol. (See the top 10 unsolved crimes...
...workers, and managers announced they might have to fire up to 600 more. The cable factory laid off 40 people and cut pay 15% for those who remained. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke up one day, and everything had changed," says Ivan Pronin, editor of the local paper, the Lyudinovo Worker. "It's like a hurricane blew through here...
...very personal experience that brought Melton to stem cells, one that 17 years later he still finds difficult to discuss. When his son Sam was 6 months old, he became ill with what his parents thought was a cold. He woke up with projectile vomiting and before long began taking short, shallow breaths. After several hours, he started to turn gray, and Melton and his wife Gail brought the baby to the emergency room. For the rest of that afternoon, doctors performed test after test, trying to figure out what was wrong. "It was a horrific day," says Melton...
...other begins. "They had instant chemistry when they started working together in the 1990s," says a mutual friend. But the question of who will have the most influence on policy is still a fair one. Summers is famously rumpled, brilliant and occasionally rude. During the Asian crisis, he woke up his Japanese counterpart when he found out the Tokyo government was trying to arrange a bailout fund outside the purview of the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury. "I thought you were my friend!" he told the startled Japanese bureaucrat. Summers was one of the most brilliant economists...
...certain things?" says Smith. "But a jury is permitted to get into their minds and make a finding." Such a strategy would characterize Blagojevich and his co-defendants as experienced political operators who "made it to the top of the game; they're not losers. But one day they woke up to find out the rules had changed, and they can't believe that they've committed a crime...