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...along the road to Prijedor, a burned-out house suddenly appears around a bend. Then more follow, and more, maybe a thousand in all, relics of two-story, white-washed villas with broken red tile roofs. Windows are smashed, walls blackened by smoke. There are no shrapnel and bullet holes recording some battle here; this is what "ethnic cleansing" looks like a day or even an hour later. Laundry still hangs on clotheslines, a sign of how quickly disaster fell upon the inhabitants. Only one house remains intact, the home of a Serb couple who sit drinking their morning coffee...
...Packer, America's most infamous cannibal, to discover whether Packer was a murderer as well. (Yes, he was.) He also exhumed Carl Weiss, the alleged assassin of Louisiana Governor Huey Long; Weiss, in turn, had been shot by Long's bodyguards. Based on discrepancies between the bodyguards' testimony and bullet marks found on Weiss's bones, among other clues, Starrs concluded that it is more likely that the bodyguards themselves murdered their boss. Now Starrs wants to dig up the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden, or at least their skulls, to find out whether Borden really did them...
...rumored disaffection -- the timing of their crossovers having been quietly coordinated by the Clinton campaign. But these folks were different; they live in Orange County, California, the wealthy citadel of conservative Republicanism that was home to John Wayne, a place, the Duke once joked, where "due process is a bullet...
Convinced that every extra second is of value, Japan has invested mightily in these systems. Originally such devices were not tripped until the ground began to shudder -- scant notice indeed, though enough to prevent the derailment of a speeding bullet train. Such simple motion-detecting systems are now used throughout Japan and in parts of California to halt subway trains and nudge elevators to the nearest floor when ground motion exceeds a certain threshold. The Alaska pipeline is similarly equipped for instant shutdown...
...ESCALATION OF WATER WEAPONRY FROM squirt gun to Super Soaker reached its apotheosis last week when Richard Cook, 16, sprayed the wrong guy with a high- power water gun and ended up in a Harlem hospital with a real 9-mm bullet lodged in his back. The new generation of water weapons, with their bulbous tanks and high-pressure air pumps, splash so hard, squirt so far and are so wildly popular (Larami's Super Soaker is the fastest-selling summer toy in the U.S. for the second year in a row) that some public officials fear the summer...