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Don Harper Mills: 1994's Most Bizarre Suicide

Don Harper Mills: 1994's Most Bizarre Suicide
This story can be found in many places on the Web, usually without attribution, and claims that it is true. But the story of its origin, and how to spot it must be an UL, can be found at Deconstructing Ronald Opus At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Sciences, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. On March 23 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a gunshot wound of the head caused by a shotgun. Ordinarily a person who starts into motion the events with a suicide intent ultimately commits suicide even though the mechanism might be not what he intended. Further investigation led to the discovery that the room on the 9th floor from whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. When one intends to kill subject A, but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B.

How to Disagree March 2008 The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts. Many who respond to something disagree with it. That's to be expected. The result is there's a lot more disagreeing going on, especially measured by the word. If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. DH0. This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common. u r a fag!!!!!!!!!! But it's important to realize that more articulate name-calling has just as little weight. The author is a self-important dilettante. is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag." DH1. An ad hominem attack is not quite as weak as mere name-calling. Of course he would say that. This wouldn't refute the author's argument, but it may at least be relevant to the case. DH2. DH3. DH4. DH5. DH6. What It Means Related:

- StumbleUpon For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world -- large and small, old and new. Gathering images of deserted areas into a single photo essay, one can get a sense of what the world might look like if humans were to vanish from the planet altogether. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more. [41 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A tree grows from the top of a chimney in an abandoned factory yard in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, on October 2 , 2011. A bust of Confucius rests at an abandoned workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Beijing, on December 7, 2011. Ivy grows over a street in Tomioka town, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on August 19, 2011.

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Asteroid Crash May Explain Mercury's Strange Spin A collision with an asteroid might have set the planet Mercury whirling oddly in its orbit, a new study suggests. When one body orbits another — say, a moon around a planet or a planet around a star — the orbiting body often spins. Our planet experiences day and night because it spins on its axis, regularly changing which side it exposes to the sun. However, the gravitational pull that orbiting moons and planets experience slows the rate of their spin. The most stable arrangement they can reach is to keep just one side always facing the body they are orbiting. If the same were to happen with Earth and the sun, our planet would rotate once on its axis for every orbit it completed around the sun. Scientists had long assumed that Mercury was tidally locked with the sun — the planet's tiny size and proximity to the sun suggested the star's gravitational pull would quickly force Mercury into such a state. Such an impact might also explain certain hollows seen on Mercury's surface.

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Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near Mercury | The Sideshow A mysterious object is seen following in Mercury's path Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury? That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged material shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury. Theorists have seized on the images captured from the "coronal mass ejection" (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our own cosmic backyard. Of course, there's another scientifically sanctioned explanation for the curious images, though we're not certain that skeptics and UFO enthusiasts such as SiniXster will endorse it. Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off objects such as stars, which don't move much relative to the sun. Other popular Yahoo! • Video: Labrador rescues kittens trapped inside bag

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Earth, Meet Your Long-Lost Sibling: The Christmas Planet It may sound like something from a very special episode of Doctor Who, but the Christmas planet is real. What's more, it's the most Earth-like world yet discovered. The planet, more properly known as Kepler 22-b, was revealed to the world Monday via a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center. So why call it the Christmas Planet? "It's a great gift," said William Borucki, the telescope's principal investigator, who came up with the seasonal name. Actually making our way to the Christmas Planet might take a little longer, however. But we do know it's about twice the size of Earth, and that the average surface temperature is a balmy 72 degrees Farenheit. Gregg Homme Rio Muscle Shirt | ABC Underwear | Articles | Neptio Underwear | Calvin Klein Underwear| LOBBO |Mens Underwear | Male Power | Magic Silk | Hanes | Men's Swimwear | Lingerie | Thongs | Gym Clothes | Jockstrap | Site Map | Popular Searches | Videos | Jobs | Terms of Use | Reviews | Info/About Us | Login | Gift Certificates | Phoenix, AZ Store | Wholesale | Contact Us | DMCA Notice| Pricing in US Dollars. All photos, images and text are protected by copyright. ABCunderwear.com and ABC Underwear are trademarks, all rights reserved.

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