Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter, 7, have developed chillingly precocious antipathies. Her son spends most of his time watching state television or playing war with his friends; hide-and-seek is called "catch the pilot." Fiddling with a new chemistry set recently, Mirjana's daughter vowed to cook up a bomb "to blow NATO away...
...time the memorial services had been held and the flowers piled up in the soft spring snow in the parking lot, the recriminations were well under way. How could parents not know their garage was a bomb-making factory? How could a school not know the hatred in its halls was more than routine teenage alienation? Why had the SWAT team members been so cautious when people were trapped and bleeding to death? What if their kids had been inside...
...onto the roof of the school, and it exploded in a flash. Some kids thought it was the long-awaited senior prank; they had been expecting balloons filled with shaving cream. Surely those are firecrackers, they thought. Surely those guns are fake. Is the blood fake? Can a fake bomb make walls shake? Then they were screaming and running. One boy could feel the rush of a bullet past his head...
...recipes, those are even easier to find for a kid with that much cyberskill. Harris' personal website, since taken down by AOL, detailed advice on building pipe bombs. "I will rig up explosives all over town," he wrote. "I don't care if I live or die." Elsewhere on the website he writes that a pipe bomb is "the easiest and deadliest way to kill a group of people," and he offers advice on shrapnel: "You can use screws, BBs, nails of all kinds..." According to an internal information memo in the possession of district attorney Thomas, Harris had spoken...
...nations that have been almost immune from a mainland attack by a foreign nation. And it seems to have no problem dropping bombs on Belgrade. I wonder how it would feel if Russia or China were to bomb downtown Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City or Washington. SUDESH J. EBENEZER Winnipeg...