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#1 The city's coroner, Patrick Riordan, was trying to fast-talk himself out of charges that he showed up for work drunk. He had been accused of sneering at bodies during an accident eight hours after the crash.
#2 Mors was a nurse at a German Odd Fellows home in Yonkers. He was asked to help with the removal of some of the sickest residents, and he decided to poison...
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#1 On November 6, 2000, Stefan Gruenwald arrived at the building where his small biotech company shared space with three others. He found that his licensing manager, Greg de Villers, was not at his desk. He had never been late before.
#2 Greg was missing for nearly four hours. His office manager, Terry Huang, was worried, and so was Kristin, his wife. They tried calling...
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Book Preview: #1 Poisoning is the act of administering a poison to another person. It is a very morbid fascination, and the methods of poisoning are varied and strange. The words poison and toxin are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.
#2 The four routes of poison delivery are ingestion, respiration, absorption, and injection. The actions of poisons reveal...
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#1 Sidney Gottlieb was a psychic voyager who spent his career deep inside Washington's secret world. He retired in 1973 and spent the second half of the twentieth century traveling the world and helping the needy. But in 1975, he was summoned home and had to defend himself against accusations of mind control.
#2 After his death, Gottlieb faded into obscurity. He was...
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#1 As they drove to the police station, the woman, who turned out to be Teri Martin, admitted that she had a problem with the police. She explained that she was not who she said she was, and that she had someone waiting for her back at the white Honda.
#2 The police brought Audrey Marie Hilley, the woman they had tentatively matched with Teri Martin, into the police...
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#1 Northampton, a small town in Massachusetts, is the epitome of a classic New England landscape. It is full of agricultural history and laid-back living. Nothing ever happens there of any national interest.
#2 The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, Massachusetts, has served the health needs of Massachusetts veterans since 1924. It provides tertiary psychiatric...
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#1 The first biological weapon was invented by the Greek hero Hercules, and the roots of the concept go back even before the Greek myths were written down by Homer in the eighth century BC. Poison and arrows were deeply intertwined in the ancient Greek language itself.
#2 Hercules was tasked with killing the Hydra, a monster that had many heads. He used fire to cauterize...
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#1 In the late 1800s, massive changes in American farming and transportation invited a long list of destructive bugs. Farmers lost natural parasites and predators of the pests, which created bigger problems in the process.
#2 While working for a Swiss company, Eugene Froelicher studied how insects attacked crops, and how to grow crops that would resist those attacks....
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#1 In the fall of 1961, American and Soviet tanks faced one another at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, and David Cornwell was contemplating the writing of his first bestselling novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The West German police were interrogating a Soviet spy named Bogdan Stashinsky, who had delivered a bombshell testimony implicating the Kremlin rulers in...
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#1 My source told me that Western intelligence agencies had concluded that Putin had ordered and directed the poisoning of the former KGB agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England. The attempted murder with the powerful Russian-made nerve agent Novichok had shocked the UK and Europe.
#2 The poisoning of Sergei Skripal was similar to the assassination...
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#1 The first step out of bed for most people was to shiver, and the start of the day for most working people was dawn. The knocker-upper was a man who tapped on the windowpanes of his clients to wake them up.
#2 The first thing you would do in the morning was get warm by lying down on a rug. Windows were often left open overnight, to allow cool currents of fresh air...
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#1 Most people have never stood inside a dead animal, unless you count when Luke Skywalker crawled inside a tauntaun to keep from freezing to death in Star Wars. The only thing that seemed strange about the Cosby family's dinner preparations was that no one was covered in blood.
#2 I had to throw up in a deer sweater. It was like I was wearing a deer sweater. I can't eat any meat...
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#1 The stories about the poison pills at NASA were jokes. There were no situations in which you would ever consider making an early exit, and even if there were, you had lots of easier ways to do it than poison pills.
#2 The people in Houston felt bad about all this, and came on the line to say so. Apollo 13, we've got lots and lots of people working on this. We'll get...
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Get the Summary of Lysa TerKeurst's Uninvited in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to honestly examine the roots of rejection, as well as rejection's...
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Original book introduction: Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the...
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Get the Summary of Ben Rhodes's After the Fall in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they had worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians,...
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Book Preview: #1 Jason Greenstein, a forty-seven-year-old man with late-stage cancer, was on his way to a miracle. He was going to defy death by standing on its precipice.
#2 The attack on Jason's left hand was particularly cruel. When Jason was a kid, he was a phenomenal athlete. He had the looks to match, with dark hair and dark eyes. But his laugh was his defining characteristic....
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#1 The first civilization produced the first medicine, which was opium. It was so powerful that ancient cultures believed it came from the gods. The money is in the seedpod, which contains a milky white liquid that hardens into a dark gum.
#2 The Romans were also smitten with the opium poppy, which was emblazoned on their coins and honored by their god of sleep,...