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Firearms experts for both sides agreed last week that the new test was inconclusive, but the defense investigator who oversaw the test argued that better results might be obtained after cleaning the gun barrel with a wire or nylon brush. Prosecution experts countered that such a cleaning might damage the barrel, tainting its value as a source of evidence. Brown put off a ruling until the parties reconvene this Friday...
...Instead, they're forced to low-ball fares to attract leisure travelers, a strategy that works only when planes are flying full--and their bigger competitors will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen. "It's very hard to make money feeding at the bottom of the barrel," says Perry Flint, executive editor of Air Transport World, a trade paper...
YOKOHAMA, Japan: Embarrassed Japanese government officials conceded today that they had drastically over-estimated the oil spilled in Tokyo Bay by a factor of 10. Instead of the 100,000 barrel-leak they reported Wednesday when the 147,012-ton tanker ran aground, they now believe only 9,800 barrels poured into the harbor. The 100,000 barrel estimate would have made the accident the worst oil spill in Japan's history. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said today most of the oil which spilled from the third of the ship's tanks "seems to have flowed into the second empty...
...agreed on a "Statement of Fact," a top-secret document that concluded China was helping Pakistan build the Rawalpindi plant and that warned the facility could be producing key parts of the rocket within two years. The White House and State Department, however, have treated the report like a barrel of radioactive waste, refusing to schedule interagency meetings during the past seven months, even to discuss whether China should be penalized...
...boyhood home has been replaced by a convenience store--where the clerk gets so lost in a noisy video game that he fails to notice a real-life gun battle breaking out in his aisles. Therein lies this movie's fundamental irony: anarchy may bloom from Martin's gun barrel, but unlike his old pals, he is not in denial about it. He is still trying to nurture the shoots of old-fashioned squareness that remain rooted in his soul...