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Nobody did this more effectively than Robert Thomas, owner of the Amateur Action BBS in Milpitas, California, and a kind of modern-day Marquis de Sade, according to the Carnegie Mellon report. He is currently serving time in an obscenity case that may be headed for the Supreme Court...
Sophomore Jennifer Fung and her younger brother Victor are the current U.S. amateur champions in the sport...
...aired complaints frequently at local school board or township meetings. "They feel there's too much government intervention in every aspect of your life," Izydorek explains. The Washington Post, however, reported a more grisly version of Nichols' activities: neighbor Dan Stomber claimed the brothers, along with McVeigh, were amateur bombmakers who would call him over to watch them set off bombs made with "household chemicals and plastic jugs, mostly...
That kind of home-made brew can be difficult to work with. Although ANFO is safer than many other explosives, amateur bombmakers can easily blow themselves up if they are not careful. "ANFO is easy to make if you know how to do it, but it takes years of experience to work with it safely," says Dean. Moreover, it is almost impossible for amateurs to mix thoroughly the ammonium nitrate with the fuel oil. (Commercial manufacturers use industrial-size blenders for the job.) Clumps of ammonium nitrate will fail to detonate--leaving investigators with good clues about the materials used...
...Peter Sellars '81 and Bill Rauch '84 have gained national recognition with talents honed as undergraduate directors of major campus productions. And Jack Lemmon '47, who will be honored with the first Harvard Arts Medal on Saturday, is just one of many professional actors to emerge from Harvard's amateur theater...