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...Crimson, a bumper crop of recruits came into Cambridge, including the likes of freshmen Emily Stauffer, Keren Gudeman, Kristen Bowes and Dana Krein. The first three were 1-2-3 on the team in scoring, while Krein was Crimson's NO. 1 goaltender...
Ammonium nitrate is a double-edged chemical. Spread it on a field and it becomes a benign fertilizer that helps produce bumper crops. Mix it with fuel oil and it becomes the kind of deadly bomb that shook Oklahoma City last week. The U.S. makes 8 million tons of the white crystalline compound each year, and it is widely available in gardening centers, supply warehouses and at construction sites. But just because anyone can buy ammonium nitrate for about 11¢ a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place...
...door of the reception office at Jerusalem's Kfar Shaul psychiatric Hospital, someone has posted a bumper sticker, popular among one faction of Orthodox Jews, that reads, PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. To hear a number of the patients tell it, he's already on the premises...
With their generous literary gifts, Sheed and West elevate an often dreary, self-absorbed genre. They are also above-average grousers. West on medical bureaucracies: "How many tyrannical oafs does a hospital need before it dwindles into incorrigible uselessness?" Sheed on members of Alcoholics Anonymous: "People who talk in bumper stickers and have only one mood." It's a good sign. The patients are sitting up and taking umbrage...
...baseball boycott. Their for-profit organization -- Baseball Fans On Strike -- just established anInternet sitefor ordering a $20 membership kit, T-shirts, and baseball caps with the organization's logo. Members who pledge to boycott all 1995 major league baseball games get a newsletter, a travel gift certificate and a bumper sticker. Sweeney told TIME Daily that the boycott is for the entire season, even if thestrikeends, because he is angry that it has lasted so long. "We're boycotting regardless of who is playing," Sweeney said. "No matter if there are replacements, pros or even if they put sheep...