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...this as the perfect terrorist attack: "You make your point, and nobody really gets hurt."Aum Shinri Kyo, the Japanese cult suspected in the Mar. 20nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways, immediately denied involvement. Police said they believe the attack differs enough from the one in Tokyo to be a copycat crime. People affected by the fumes today complained of stinging eyes, coughs and dizziness, but there were no reports of serious or life-threatening injuries...
...Jones proceeds now, Bennett plans to argue, the decision could inspire copycat lawsuits. In Fitzgerald, Chief Justice Warren Burger was worried that uncontrolled litigation, which sometimes is used as "a mechanism of extortion," could spur a President's political opponents to file suits simply to distract him from his duties. After quoting Burger, Bennett's draft says "one can readily imagine" further claims, "especially involving unwitnessed one-on-one encounters that are exceedingly difficult to disprove. Moreover, given the moral annihilation approach to modern politics, one can easily envision political operatives recruiting putative plaintiffs to embarrass a President...
...suddenly, it was as if both man and nature were possessed throughout Southern California. A copycat arsonist is suspected of igniting a flame near Irvine in Orange County. Downed power wires set off the chaparral in Yucaipa and Cahuilla. Unknown causes started conflagrations in Riverside County and outside San Diego. By nightfall on Wednesday, it was clear that the region was being visited by another of its many afflictions, this one nearly biblical in scope. Within two days, 100 fires raged through the state, 13 of them major. Flames shot 70 ft. in the air and made 50-ft. leaps...
...fantasizing about killing people for more than a year. The tape made reference to several notorious mass murderers, including Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. It also referred to a 1984 bloodbath at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, California -- and police speculated that Terres' rampage might have been a copycat massacre. On tape, Terres stated, "Society screwed me, and now it's payback time." He may have been referring to the company that he claimed fired him in March, or to the 16- year-old girlfriend who dumped him in July...
...radio, so has the economics of the business. Since there is no mystery to the technology, PCs can be manufactured as well as priced like any other commodity. That fact has helped make computers a more global business, but it has also played into the hands of copycat, low-cost producers: up to 75% of the internal components are imported...