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...trains that carry 300,000 passengers every rush hour. Just before dawn, heavily armed cops swarmed into a first-floor apartment. One of the men inside reached into a bag, while another lunged for one of the officers' guns. Both men were shot repeatedly. The bag turned out to contain a powerful pipe bomb, one of several in the apartment. The suspect had succeeded in flicking one of four toggle switches needed to detonate...
Assertions that it does are based on a tiny grain of scientific truth. Shark cartilage--and cow cartilage, for that matter--does contain minute quantities of a compound that inhibits blood-vessel growth, and tumors depend on the rapid growth of internal blood vessels that can feed them. But this substance is locked up in the cartilage and doesn't leak out to the rest of the body. To extract it, scientists have to soak huge amounts of cartilage in harsh chemicals for weeks at a time...
Residents objected not only to the possibility that the new development would contain primarily pricy housing but also to the structure itself, citing concerns that the building's height is inappropriate for the scale of the Central Square area. The development's proposed height is considerably in excess of the height limit imposed by the area's zoning and would require a variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals...
...know this man? JonBenet's killer?" ask the orange flyers being distributed in Boulder, Colo., neighborhoods. The leaflets and newspaper ads, which contain a behavioral profile of the alleged murderer, mark the latest public relations effort by the child beauty queen's parents, JOHN and PATRICIA RAMSEY, in the search for JONBENET'S killer. Voicing disgust at police for concentrating their suspicions on him and his family, Ramsey disclosed that his 10-member legal team was pursuing an assortment of "solid" outside leads. The computer-company executive, who has spent hundreds of thousands on lawyers and private eyes, is enlisting...
NASA has ambitious plans for Sojourner this week. It wants the rover to investigate Scooby Doo and Casper, two rocks that look intriguingly white in lander photos and just might contain hints of ancient Martian life. How so? To scientists, the duo's whitish hues suggest that they may be sedimentary rocks. "That would be awesome," says Ken Edgett, an Arizona State University geologist, "because sedimentary rock is the kind of thing that forms under water. And when you have water that sits around for a long time and sediments pour into it, the possibility of preserving fossils goes...