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Russian officials reported that U.S. economist Michael Dasaro, 35, died of a routine heart attack in Moscow in November. However, they acknowledged that robbers had ransacked Dasaro’s apartment either shortly before or shortly after his death. When the body arrived at the home of a family member in Peabody, Massachusetts, later that month, Dasaro’s heart was missing.
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In November the Grand Canyon claimed its seventh death-by-falling victim of 1993. At least two of the seven toppled over backward as they tried to position themselves to accommodate family photographers. Said the director of a local outdoors group, “A lot of tourists approach the Grand Canyon like a ride at Disneyland . . . and think it’s idiot-proof. The Grand Canyon wasn’t built by attorneys and engineers.”
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
