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...Police arrest two suspects in the Beltway sniper shootings, ending three weeks of terror in the Washington metro area...
...perseverance turns a flap into a crisis. What this episode is about is far more than another Beltway gaffe. It's quite simply about the soul of the Republican Party. For decades, since the Republicans became the repository for some white Southern resentment of the civil rights era, the G.O.P. has walked a delicate line between legitimate support for small government and strong defense of and illegitimate reliance on racial resentments. In the past five years or so, there has been a welcome and clear attempt to grapple more directly with the question of race. Figures like Ward Connerly...
More and more, it seems as though the focus on the MMR vaccine has been a colossal distraction in autism research--and in parental concern. Just as a few eyewitness reports made in good faith led police to focus on a white van in the search for the Beltway snipers and overlook the blue Caprice, the controversy over MMR may have prompted parents of autistic children to focus too intently on vaccination. The latest research suggests that the disorder begins in the womb--long before any vaccines are given. There is also intriguing evidence of abnormalities in the immune system...
...seal a letter left at the murder scene outside a Ponderosa steak house in Virginia for a match with either man's dna. Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging of the lengths to which desperate authorities went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly paired with local swat teams and scattered around the region in unmarked cars. Clad in body armor and equipped with night-vision gear and secure radios, the groups were prepared to race to the scene of a shooting...
...slugs 360°, turning them back and forth like paired dancers beneath his eyepiece. After a long study, he pushes away from the table. It will take several hours for section chief Timothy J. Curtis, 46, to formally confirm the findings, but the outcome seems clear. The bullets match. The Beltway killer has struck again...