Word: blasts
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Frenchanti-terrorisminvestigators are examining the scene of a rush-hour explosion that killed four people and injured about 60 at a Paris underground station near the Notre Dame Cathedral. Prime Minister Alain Juppe, at the station, said it was uncertain whether the blast came from a bomb, "but the presumptions are very strong." Some witnesses reported the strong smell of gunpowder after the explosion. Several victims, faces covered with blood, were carried off in stretchers; a nearby restaurant was turned into a rescue base to treat minor injuries. "I saw six or seven people who were wounded; bleeding from their...
Potts had seemed to redeem himself last April, when he expertly handled the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City blast. But last week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists...
...winning!" On the first day of the offensive, he was a patient in the hospital when a Serb shell crashed through the room, severing the head of one patient and slicing the body of another in two. Even with his own head and hands bandaged from the blast, Curevac could not wait to rejoin his unit at the front, convinced that the Bosnian army was about to give the Serbs a thrashing. "They won't be able to do this for much longer," he declared confidently...
...those who like introductions, small talk and playing the name game, it's a blast. Every day is an opportunity to meet a future spouse, or at least a first girlfriend or boyfriend. Besides taking placement tests, the only responsibilities are socializing and more socializing...
...shooting out of these still forming stars. Only by slinging some of the incoming matter away as a counterbalance could the protostars avoid going into a superfast spin. When a new star finally becomes massive enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that makes it shine, the resulting outward blast of energy would stop any more matter from falling in, the jets would turn off, and the remaining dusty disk would start clumping together to form planets...