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Appelbaum offers a spirited defense of the Second Amendment; invoking speeches by great American statespeople to buttress his position...
...flawed lab work certainly damages their case. Indeed, there is a popular sense that law enforcers have yet to complete basic spadework: 76% of people polled last week said that all those responsible for the bombing have not yet been captured and identified. McVeigh's defense is likely to buttress similar feelings among jurors with a slew of stories from people who will tell tales at variance with the government's thesis of McVeigh the mastermind...
...more sales for their struggling economies. But cheaper Toyotas aren't good for everyone--for instance, General Motors and Chrysler reported weak sales last week. Partly in response, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, long a strong-dollar man, indicated that the Administration may have ended its two-year drive to buttress the buck...
...returning to Apple, the company he co-founded in 1976 in a California garage with Steve Wozniak and then left in a bitter dispute 11 years ago. Apple has announced that it is buying Jobs' NeXT Software Inc. for $400 million and bringing Jobs himself in to help buttress the combined company against the depredations of competitor Microsoft...
...investigation has returned to mechanical failure and the possibility that a spark, despite built-in safeguards, may have somehow caused the center fuel tank to explode. Again, the problem is evidence: there is none. Computer modeling--or the simulated explosion of a retired jumbo jet--may be required to buttress the theory...