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The Buried Bodies Case

It takes a rule every law student learns and makes you weigh it against a grieving father sitting across the desk.

1. 01Robert Garrow killed camper Philip Domblewski in the Adirondacks in July 1973, then told his own lawyers where two more bodies lay.
2. 02Confidentiality rules let a lawyer break a client's secret only to prevent death or serious harm, and Susan Petz and Alicia Hauck were already dead.
3. 03Frank Armani kept the secret for about five months, until December 1973, even after Susan Petz's father flew in from Chicago to ask him for news.
4. 04Armani and Francis Belge faced death threats, a grand jury and an ethics complaint once the secret slipped out at Garrow's 1974 trial.

Octomom

It is a rare, true deep-sea record told with warmth: one animal's four-year vigil watched almost by accident from a robot sub.

1. 01MBARI researchers spotted a deep-sea octopus in the Monterey Canyon in April 2007 and found her brooding about 160 eggs a month later.
2. 02Yan Wang of Princeton says two rice-grain optic glands keep a brooding octopus alive on steroids and insulin while the rest of her body shuts down.
3. 03Octomom brooded for about four and a half years, the longest brooding period recorded for any animal, while shallow-water octopuses brood for about a month.
4. 04Bruce Robison's team offered her crab legs with the sub's robot arms two or three times, and she refused every one, starving by design.

The Smell of Hell

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Math Vs Machine

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