Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
...bomb that exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building two years ago killed 168 people, 19 of them children. Last Friday the decision about whether or not Timothy McVeigh was responsible for the crime was placed in the hands of the jurors, who were to be sequestered until they reached a verdict. If they found McVeigh guilty on any one of the 11 murder and conspiracy counts against him, he could face the death penalty. Juries are notoriously unpredictable, but given the thinness of the defense and the strength of the prosecution, an acquittal would...
...government set out to prove the following: that McVeigh harbored a deep hatred of the Federal Government, that he had spent months acquiring materials for the bomb and planning the attack, that he was the one who rented the Ryder truck used in the bombing, and that traces of explosives were found on his clothes, knife and earplugs when he was arrested. The case was not airtight--no one testified to seeing McVeigh make the bomb or seeing him at the crime scene--but the government made a very powerful presentation. To counter it, Jones had three strategies: raise...
DIED. MANFRED VON ARDENNE, 90, Germany's scientific jack-of-all-trades; in Dresden. The "Red Baron" vowed to switch fields each decade to keep his intellect sharp. As a physicist, he helped the Soviets build the atom bomb...
...almost impossible task after prosecutors spent two and a half days building a succinct and horrifying case that jurors should do exactly that. Witness after witness piled on details so gruesome that lawyers, journalists, U.S. marshals and members of the jury all wept: How, after the bomb went off, the floors of the Alfred P. Murrah building pancaked on top of each other. How rescuers had to build bridges to get across pools of body fluids. How Dania Bradley, trapped and unable to take anesthetic, screamed as a doctor sawed her leg off to free her from the ruined building...