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After extrapolating the full VIN from the fragment, the FBI contacted the Ford Motor Co., which checked its records and found that the vehicle was a yellow Ford Econoline E-350 van that had been sold to the Ryder Truck Rental Co. in Alabama. Ryder officials turned up the license plate XA70668 and reported that the van had been rented out of the company's Jersey City office. By Wednesday, only three days after the piece of metal had been found on the ramp, the FBI was in contact with Ryder officials in Jersey City, who had no difficulty remembering...
Biomimetic materials hold particular promise as coatings and wrappings that increase the body's tolerance of implanted devices. Eventually these substances may be put to work as nearly natural replacements for injured ligaments and arteries. University of Alabama molecular biophysicist Dan Urry, for example, has succeeded in turning a key segment of the protein elastin, present in many body tissues, into a material whose expansive and contractile properties closely approximate those of arterial walls. The material can be fashioned into tubes that feel, uncannily, like real blood vessels and also into sheets for encasing mechanical devices like pacemakers. Tests...
...down hundreds of personal-appearance requests that were deemed "unpresidential" by aides, but the Clintonites say they will agree to almost anything. "The weirder, the better," said a booker. In early February Clinton appeared in a promotional teaser for a sports-blooper show on a TV station in Birmingham, Alabama. "Just watching one of my regular White House jogs would make your Hall of Shame," plugged Clinton...
...cops call them "the roofers from hell." Lured by the promise of quick money in the wake of Hurricane Andrew, thousands have traveled from South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, even as far away as New Jersey and Michigan. Most seek honest work, but with them came a crime wave of burglaries, robberies, stabbings and drunk-driving fatalities. Even in once quiet tourist spots like Key Largo, violent crimes are up. "The entire environment has changed because of them," says Captain Joe Leiter of the Key Largo sheriff's office. "Six armed robberies in one month is totally unheard...
Long past midnight, top government officials worked feverishly inside the FBI's Washington headquarters to launch an assault by the elite Hostage Rescue Team. At stake were the lives of nine employees at the Talladega federal prison, in Alabama, who were being held captive by a mob of prisoners armed with spears, knives and crossbows. Suddenly FBI Director William Sessions walked in and began marching around the room, "making noise, strutting around, being somewhat pompous, and engaging in non sequiturs," as one official recalls. Instead of dealing with the crisis at hand, the officials were forced to humor Sessions...