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The purpose of this report is to explain the cause of death of Mr. Dale Earnhardt, with particular attention to the role of facial contact, inertial head loading (the whip mechanism), and impact near the top of the head. Background Mr. Earnhardt...

Seat-belt failure did not cause the head injuries that killed NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt during February's Daytona 500, a court-appointed medical expert who studied the racer's autopsy photos reported Monday. Dr. Barry Myers, a Duke University expert on...

BIG SAVAGE MOUNTAIN -- Derrick Horrey snaps to attention in the gymnasium of the Savage Leadership Challenge, just as he plans to snap to attention a few days later in the Marines. In razor-creased fatigues, he and 13 other teen-agers stand shoulder to...

STATE OF THE ART Agriculture People have been genetically modifying plants and livestock for centuries through selective breeding, but the deciphering of DNA's structure opened the door to much more radical manipulation. Among the first modified crops...

New condominiums and townhouses rose along the edges of Chinatown during the 1990s, surrounding the pungent fish markets and pagoda-shaped restaurants that long made the South Side neighborhood seem like a living museum. Suburban professionals and...

I am Orrie Gilbert, and this is my story about how I got to be famous without meaning to. The story is mostly about me, but it might be useful to you if you got to be famous some time. You can't tell from my name, so I might as well tell you I'm a girl...

If sons pay for their fathers' sins, then perhaps - if Marilyn Chin's poetry is any indication - daughters collect on their mothers', and grandmothers', sacrifices. Chin writes for her grandmother, illiterate yet able to recite Tang dynasty poems and the...

Ben Affleck has had such a rough year (or so I've read) that it almost seems unfair to pick on either his newest film or latest nontabloid performance. Still, in the interest of stargazing and semiotics, it does seem worth mentioning that Affleck, a movie...

Six days after the shooting, Courant photographer Patrick Raycraft and I rode an elevator up to the children's ward at Yale-New Haven Hospital. With a "ding," the doors opened onto a hallway brightly painted with cartoon characters. The locked double...

During an August visit at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Dr. Bruce Schneider, the oral surgeon, needed to figure out whether nerves in Takira's chin had grown back, and whether her face, lips and tongue would be paralyzed. He checked X-rays,...

On an early September day, speech pathologist Lisa Ladd walked Takira and Takara into a tiny area that resembled a classroom on the second floor of St. Francis Hospital. Takira sat at a table facing Ladd. Takara worked a puzzle on the other side of the...

In a ruling that affects scores of criminal defendants, the California Supreme Court decided Thursday that a single criminal act can count as more than one crime under the state's three-strikes law. The 4-to-3 ruling upheld a sentence of 25 years to life...