"In pain and despair, I started to defend myself as I could and got a strong blow in my stomach through the bed sheet, " she said in a statement.

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Three items inside Odeh's bag -- a pair of jeans, a T-shirt, and a cloth described as a bed sheet -- tested positive for either TNT or PETN, Mount said.

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Vallandingham was killed on the fourth day of the occupation, after his inmate captors had flown a bed sheet out the windows threatening to kill a hostage if certain demands weren't met.

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He climbed into bed under every sheet and quilt he owned, deciding that the next night would be warmer.

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She laid him back down and walked around the bed, working the sheet until it lay reasonably flat.

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Yates had a history of postpartum psychosis, major depression and two suicide attempts before she drowned her children and laid their bodies on her bed, covering them with a sheet.

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Her work My Bed, which featured a urine-soaked sheet, attracted much attention in 1999.

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So by firing radio pulses through the overlying sheet and recording the return echoes, scientists can plot both the depth of the rock bed and - by definition - the thickness of the ice covering.

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