Her health was severely compromised by stress, failed marriages, and unusual dietary / lifestyle practices, although rumors of assassination or suicide abounded.

However, her friends stated that she was in good spirits, and were aware of nothing unusual in her life that could suggest a reason for committing suicide.

Line 14 has some unusual design features – its floor tiling is not bitumenised, and platform edge doors at stations prevent passengers from falling onto the track or from committing suicide.

The characters were essentially a dysfunctional family and the situations the show dealt with were often serious and dark and unusual for network sitcom fare, including death, attempted and committed suicide, rape, child molestation, mental illness, road rage, violence, drug abuse, domestic abuse, alcoholism, and terrorism — especially in the third season, which was to be the last ( partly due to the controversial nature of the show ).

Some fringe theories reported in Mexican newspapers hold that Carrillo's bodyguards smothered him with a pillow ; or that the PGR tortured him to death first, then faked the plastic surgery ; or, as was reported in El Financiero, the corpse was really that of Amado's cousin ; or, perhaps the most unusual version, reported by respected radio and TV journalist Pedro Ferriz de Con, was that Carrillo committed suicide, according to an interview where Carillo allegedly said, " If I die, nobody killed me.

The firearms team were informed that they faced suicide bombers, that a DSO was in place, and that they might be required to use " unusual tactics ".

His primary interest was in applying the methodology of science to realms of inner experience and the spiritual worlds ( Steiner's appreciation that the essence of science is its method of inquiry is unusual among esotericists ), and Steiner called anthroposophy Geisteswissenschaft ( lit.

This allows it to pierce the shells of armoured reptiles and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal bite to the brain.

The RPR method of predation would be consistent with other aspects of Velociraptors anatomy, such as their unusual jaw and arm morphology.

The aeolian harp employs a very unusual method of sound production: the strings are excited by the movement of the air.

The woman appears alive to an unusual measure, which Leonardo achieved by his new method not to draw the outlines, " mainly in two features: the corners of the mouth, and the corners of the eyes " ( Gombrich ), as firmly as that had been the use, before ( sfumato ).

This unusual method of brood size regulation might be the result of the eggs being laid before the female has been able to gauge the size of the carcass and hence how many larvae it can provision.

Acton has an unusual method of assigning students to elementary schools, called " Open Enrollment.

This unusual method of mathematical problem solving meant that, for instance, to add 2 and 4, one had to enter 2, then 4, then the + symbol.

Ketchel used a very unusual method in his fights.

With the unusual method of distribution of these tracks by a band with a relatively large fanbase formerly signed to a major label, many record companies were outraged with the releases.

Winckelmann's method of careful observation allowed him to identify Roman copies of Greek art, something that was unusual at that time — Roman culture was considered the ultimate achievement of Antiquity.

Beebe devised an unusual method for determining how he would react to his visitors at Simla.

Its all welded construction was very unusual for the cycle industry at the time, and many years were to pass before other manufacturers adopted this method.

This unusual and labour-intensive method of operation was short-lived and eventually the passenger and goods portions were combined into a single train headed by the locomotive.

It is this unusual production method which is said to give bagels their distinctive taste, chewy texture, and shiny appearance.

The RPR method of predation would be consistent with other aspects of Deinonychuss anatomy, such as their unusual jaw and arm morphology.

The cost of building the villa was very high due to the unusual construction method, luxurious materials, and the use of modern technology for heating and ventilation.

The Chinese method is unusual in that an extra bean or ball is rarely used.

The character, from his unusual appearance, manners, strength and method of killing, forms the archetype for which many henchmen of the Bond film series were based on, which includes Jaws, Nick Nack, Chang and Gobinda.

Some contest that the glyphs refer to two people with the same name or that an unusual method for recording time was used, but other experts in the field say that allowing for such possibilities would go against everything else that is known about the Maya calendar and records of events.

It emerges at night to practice its unusual prey capture method.

The Lena has the unusual distinction of appearing to be the longest river in the world ( if the longer Yenisey is not counted ) when viewed on a map using a Mercator projection, the most common method of displaying the spherical earth on a flat surface, due to that projection's tendency to exaggerate the size of areas near the poles ( the longer Amazon and Nile rivers both cross the equator.

Taranaki is considered unusual in that it has experienced at least five of its major eruptions by the method of cone collapse.

The Inuit of Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory, Nunavut and Greenland are well known for their throat-singing, an unusual method of vocalizing found only in a few cultures worldwide.

On February 8, 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court declared electrocution " cruel and unusual punishment "; on May 28, 2009, the state legislature adopted lethal injection as its execution method.

If the slowing down of certain seismic waves caused by the damp spot helped uncover the underground ocean, the unusual temperature variation with depth measured in 241 inactive oil wells helped locate the subterranean river.

According to many critics, such an unusual division of labor caused serious command and control problems.

File: Dead sea newspaper. jpg | A tourist demonstrates the unusual buoyancy caused by high salinity

On 13 April 2004, much of the mountain was blanketed by an accumulation of hail during a storm, an unusual event that caused a commotion among the local community in Cerro El Pital, El Salvador.

In November 1999, Nevis was hit by Hurricane Lenny, which caused some heavy damage to the island's infrastructure on the western coast, because of the storm's unusual track from west to east.

* The Rising breech carbine: An unusual action produced by Bilharz, Hall and Co. for the southern Confederacy, the rising breech's underlever caused the breechblock including the chamber to slide vertically above the line of the barrel, the reverse of a falling-block ; the chamber was loaded from the front with a paper cartridge.

Like Green, who made particular mention of Beiderbecke's " amount of teaching ," the jazz historian Ted Gioia also has emphasized Beiderbecke's lack of formal instruction, suggesting that it caused him to adopt " an unusual, dry embouchure " and " unconventional fingerings ," which he retained for the rest of his life.

* possible short stature, sometimes with unusual body proportions because of difficulty walking or malnutrition caused by difficulty swallowing

Drought is unusual dryness of soil, resulting in crop failure and shortage of water for other uses, caused by significantly lower rainfall than average over a prolonged period.

Trudeau also suggested that Turner's years as finance minister were very difficult because of turbulent and unusual conditions in the world economy, characterized as stagflation, largely caused by enormous increases in the price of oil.

The unusual incident caused significant damage and consternation, but no deaths.

Unlike earlier floods in the Wyoming Valley, most of which were caused by spring freshets, the 1972 flood was caused by bizarre and unusual weather patterns, including heavy rainfall that began in mid-April.

This has caused the unusual formation of a swamp at the top of a hill.

Direct drive using gears is unusual because the frequently reversing torque caused by the slope of the cams tends to quickly wear out gear teeth.

During her visit to Paris, she caused great attention while dining at a public restaurant: this was unusual for a royal woman at this time, and it was also the only time she ever did that.

Most other no-contests in boxing occur when unusual circumstances, which would include instances such as a bout being rained out, ring falling apart, or an unexpected injury caused by something outside of the boxer's control.

The total number of ministers allowed to be paid as " Cabinet ministers " is limited by the ( Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 ), and this has caused successive Prime Ministers problems, and accounts for some of the unusual regular attendees at Cabinet, who are not paid as Cabinet ministers.

During the summer of 2003 the country experienced an unusual heat wave which caused the death of nearly 15, 000 people.

His unusual appearance caused many to believe that he was a " pinhead ", or microcephalic.

Edward C. Pickering theorized that the lines were caused by an unusual state of hydrogen, and it was found that this " Pickering series " of lines followed a pattern similar to the Balmer series, when half-integral quantum numbers were substituted.

The unusual head shape in plagiocephaly is caused by pressure in the womb giving a " diamond " shaped head when seen from above.

TSEs are caused by unusual infectious agents known as prions.

His decision seems unusual, and there have been suggestions that it was caused by a rift with his father, but there is no evidence of this.

Styling was also getting distinctly old fashioned and this caused Leonard Lord, in an unusual move for him, to call upon the services of an external stylist.