Word: blasted
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...friends, colleagues and graduate students had lugged everything to a new office and set things up beautifully. At the bottom of one crate, I found my battered but legible copy of essays by E.B. White. I knew immediately what it was doing there and why it had survived the blast; it included a short piece called "What Do Our Hearts Treasure?" White tells in his unsentimental, concrete way about a Christmas he and his wife had to spend in Florida, about their vague unhappiness and forced cheer--and their pleasure when a box arrived from back home in Maine...
Witnesses identify McVeigh as the man who rented a Ryder van under a false name on April 17. During the days leading up to the blast, they place him and his truck at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, about 200 miles from Oklahoma City, where he was registered under his own name. Other witnesses say that in the moments before the explosion they saw McVeigh, a Ryder truck and the beige Mercury in which McVeigh was later arrested all in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building...
...only did Kerry blast Weld's record at last night's debate, but he also took the opportunity to respond to recent criticism that he has no definitive record in the senate. Kerry attempted to give Massachusetts voters a clearer sense of what he has accomplished in his years as senator...
Maybe it's because he's expecting. Maybe the 20th anniversary of Rocky made him nostalgic for working for less than $20 million. Or maybe a workday filled with explosions, guns and car chases just isn't the blast it used to be. SYLVESTER STALLONE will star in a (gasp!) small movie. "I've gotten as far as I can get in a certain genre," says Stallone. "Now it's time to come back to something I feel a real kinship for." He adds, "There are only so many catastrophes you can do before they start to look the same...
TAKE A PUFF OF TOBACCO, AND A BLAST OF 4,000 CHEMICALS fills your lungs, blood and brain. The smoke delivers a strong hit--about 2 mg in each cigarette--of nicotine, a compound the U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 deemed an addictive drug. But is nicotine alone what hooks people on tobacco? Apparently not. According to a new report, smoking may exert yet another powerfully addictive influence, one that enhances the effect of nicotine in what a leading researcher calls a "diabolical synergism...