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...Students' notebooks were filled with descriptions of explosives and demolition techniques--including those for underwater attacks. One printout inserted into a notebook gave precise instructions for making a mini-mine "using common plastic soap dishes." More alarming documents, including a formula for ricin (a poisonous biological agent derived from castor seeds) and diagrams of nuclear bombs, were found by a Times of London reporter. But at least one item was a phony: a nuclear-bomb recipe taken from a parody website. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge insisted last week that the nuclear documents tell us no more than we already...
...similar process produced the even deadlier toxin of botulinum bacteria, but because oxygen kills these germs, they were grown in a fermenter infused with nitrogen. Botulism is a severe kind of food poisoning that causes paralysis and death. The Iraqis also used the castor-bean plant, widely grown in the country, to produce the poison ricin, which kills by altering the body's use of proteins and causing circulatory collapse and heart failure...
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Sean Archer (John Travolta) is an FBI agent determined to nail Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), the terrorist who killed Sean's young son. He does so, apparently killing Castor. In order to find a bomb that...oh, never mind; it's too weird. Just know that Sean has Castor's face sewn on him. And then a revived Castor puts on Sean's face. The men are trapped in the personalities of their worst enemies...
...once, a movie knows how to use its stars. That's important, because, on one level, Face/Off is a comedy about acting--Really Big Acting. Cage, who must have been taking Christopher Walken lessons, is spooky-nuts as Castor, then wonderfully poignant as Sean. And Travolta, after shucking his dour FBI persona, shows a gaily dangerous side as Castor. He's a charming, reckless slime...