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Who Would Have Thought?Rampage Killers, Tall Women And Decapitation Ads

· "Mass Homicide and Suicide: Deadliness and Outcome" by David Lester et al. Crisis Vol. 26, No. 4. Psychologists study cases of 98 lone, rampage killers in the United States from 1949 to 1999 and find that those killed by police murdered and wounded more victims than those who completed suicide, who, in turn, killed or wounded more victims than those who were captured. Rampaging killers who managed to kill themselves were less likely to be judged schizophrenic and more likely to have killed present or former co-workers.

· "Height in Women Predicts Maternal Tendencies and Career Orientation" by Denis K. Deady and Miriam J. Law Smith. Personality and Individual Differences No. 40. British researchers find that taller women are more likely than shorter women to value career and less likely to value having children or larger families.

· " 'You've Come a Long Way Baby': An Update on the Perpetuation of Decapitation Advertisement and Its Commodification of Female Sexuality in Las Vegas, Nevada," by Melanie Ann Hanson. Popular Culture Review Vol. 17, No. 1. A Sam Houston State University English professor is disturbed to find that many billboards and other advertising in Las Vegas feature scantily clad women photographed in a manner to emphasize their bodies but hide, obscure or otherwise downplay their heads or faces.