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...small circle of people who knew Wells, it came as a shock when the reticent and retiring 46-year-old appeared at a teller's window in a bank near Erie, Pa., demanded money and lifted his shirt to reveal a bomb locked around his neck. Wells fled but was stopped and pulled from his car seconds later by passing state troopers alerted by 911 callers in the bank. As he sat handcuffed and cross-legged on the ground, Wells warned troopers there was a bomb beneath his T shirt and pleaded for help in getting it off. Officers backed...
...children, Wells was a high school dropout. He was a withdrawn but likable man, friends say, a guy who wore a T shirt and jeans nearly every day. He often passed the time between deliveries thumbing through newspapers. "I don't believe he had the mentality to build a bomb," says Mark Tupek, who hired Wells to deliver pies at a local pizza shop several years ago. Tupek remembers that Wells seemed to have a strong sense of right and wrong: "I used to tell him to help himself to food in the shop if he got hungry...
...that's the message he seemed desperate to send in the last minutes of his life. As he sat on the ground, waiting for the bomb squad to arrive, one of the last things Wells could be heard saying was, "It's not me. I didn...
...take on sinister dimensions. After investigating the taxi driver's story, agents from the General Security Service in Sulaimaniyah reached a chilling conclusion: the three men may have been foreign militants who slipped into Iraq to stage a terrorist attack against U.S. forces and their allies. The next car bomb, the officials warn, might arrive in a taxi...
...Lawler, a business professor at the University of Southern California. "The company needs to attract more people who aren't as risk oriented." A recently hired Microsoft techie says getting restricted stock (with cash value) will encourage him to stay: "People like me who suffered through the dot bomb don't care as much about options...