Word: blasts
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...north face of the mountain, killing 60 people. While the more stable magma in Mount Rainier makes an eruption unlikely, the corroded state of the mountain could make a landslide even more devastating. Mount St. Helens, after all, had been baking for 100 years after its last blast; Mount Rainier has cooked for 500. "It's only a matter of time," says Dan Miller, a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), "before those towns near Rainier are buried...
...transferred is David Williams, the senior explosives expert on the scene in Oklahoma City. Soon after the blast, Williams announced that the bomb had consisted of about 4,000 lbs. of ammonium nitrate and exploded at a velocity of about 13,000 ft. per sec. According to officials, the report severely criticizes Williams for basing his observations on his experience and instinct rather than precise measurements. In fact, his assessment was accurate. But FBI managers concur with the report that the lab's chief failing has been the practice of letting veteran explosives specialists--"the bomb guys"--write reports...
...Tale of Three Cities: Accountant Glenn Wilburn lost two grandsons in the April 1995 blast that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building. Since that day, he has collected what he believes are leads abandoned by government investigators, hoping a grand jury will be impaneled to probe further. "All roads to Oklahoma City lead to Elohim City," says Wilburn, referring to a white-supremacist compound in the eastern part of the state. A telephone record he has collected (it was made public by the government) shows McVeigh calling Elohim City two weeks before the bombing. Although he offers no hard evidence...
...bank; on July 12 a local Planned Parenthood clinic was bombed and the same bank robbed again. Last week stories in the Spokesman-Review alleged that the Priesthood may have been involved in the Olympic bombing last July 27. An unnamed Atlanta architect claimed that an hour before the blast, he saw Spokane suspect Robert Berry near Centennial Olympic Park, which was part of the AT&T Global Village at the Games. Berry's co-suspect, Charles Barbee, is a former employee of AT&T who told the Spokesman-Review in 1995 that the company coddles its gay and lesbian...
Shortly thereafter, Harvard junior defenseman Brian Famigletti tallied his first career goal. Keeping the puck in the zone at the right point, Famigletti paused, and seeing no defenders in his vicinity, let loose. His blast beat an unexpecting Westlund, as it sailed over his shoulder...