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Koresh moved a little closer to that nightmare vision last week after more than 100 agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) assaulted his compound. When the firing finally stopped after an hour, four agents lay dead and 16 were wounded; inside the compound as many as 10 cult members were reported dead, including, Koresh said, a two-year-old girl, one of many children that Koresh has fathered by more than a dozen wives. The body of a man presumed to be a Koresh follower was found outside later, clutching...
Koresh eventually let 21 children -- none of them his own -- and two elderly women leave the compound, but he remained holed up inside with 90 adults and 17 children awaiting instructions from God. He claimed to be wounded, but he sounded remarkably fit as he broadcast his end-of-the-world message across the airwaves in exchange for a promise to surrender. Meanwhile, more than 200 law- enforcement officers surrounded the compound and waited, day after day, for Koresh to make good on that pledge...
...indifferent student but an avid reader of the Bible who prayed for hours and memorized long passages of Scripture. He also played guitar -- not badly by some reports -- using rock music as well as his magnetic preaching to recruit followers. Some of the spartan interiors in the Waco compound were decorated with posters of the wild man rock guitarist Ted Nugent and the heavy-metal band Megadeth...
...nooks and crannies of what is left of the auto's trunk lid. Nitrate, traces of which were found in the Trade Center crater, is the most basic component of most explosive mixtures. The next step is to find traces of chemicals that may be unique to a certain compound, like potassium or ammonium, which would identify the explosive far more precisely...
...almost never get infected after suffering wounds, and they seem to be cancer-free. Now a team of scientists, working with dogfish taken from the Gulf of Maine, think they may have the answer: a powerful antibiotic found in virtually every cell of the shark's body. The new compound, a chemical cousin of cholesterol, does not belong to any known class of antibiotics, according to a report published by the National Academy of Sciences. But it is surprisingly effective against a broad range of microbes, including fungi, bacteria and parasites. A synthetic version of the dogfish drug...