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...rush hour on July 7, killing 52. The perpetrators perished with their victims, but the arrests last week of all four suspects in the failed July 21 bombing--who apparently had intended to inflict carnage on a comparable scale--provided a measure of relief to a jittery city. In Birmingham, in the center of England, police snared Yasin Hassan Omar, allegedly the man shown on closed-circuit-television tapes who was planning to bomb the Warren Street underground station. The Peabody bust netted Ibrahim Muktar Said, suspected of trying to bomb a bus in east London, and Ramzi Mohammed...
...Mark Chilton, a diving instructor from Birmingham, England, was at a tavern near the parking lot area with friends when he heard an explosion nearby. When the manager of the bar went to find out what happened, Chilton tried to keep customers calm. He was calling his wife to tell her he was safe when suddenly there was a second, even closer bang, and Chilton rushed into the street, greeted by a gruesome scene of broken glass, corpses and body parts strewn in the parking...
...largest study of its kind, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham report that Americans suffer an alarming number of eye injuries: nearly 2 million a year. Men have twice the injury rate of women, and white males in their 20s have the highest rate of all. Among the riskiest activities: playing basketball and other sports, operating welding or construction tools and using household cleansers. --By Sora Song
...time jury selection began in his hometown, Birmingham, Ala., Scrushy was widely known for all of the following EXCEPT...
...want a PAC or high-priced fat cat speaking for me. I am the lobbyist who should count. I vote. George K. Bradley Birmingham, Mich. Doc in the Dock...