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...shirtbox-size bombs, delivered by mail or private courier, were packaged in brown cardboard and wrapped with tape. Several bore the return address of an iron-and-metal company in Pennsylvania. In each was a fishing-tackle box. When the latch was opened, it connected an electrical circuit and set off several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore...
...entrance to the shuttered Viper Room quickly became a Phoenix shrine, with flowers, candles, photographs and poems placed near the spot where he fell. Around the country young people mourned. "I was surprised at how surprised I was -- how much it affected me," notes Paul Lauth, 25, a Miami courier. "His acting was natural, unaffected, real." Some regretted the loss of great Phoenix roles: "I felt he got cheated and I got cheated," says John Pinto, 25, of Chicago. Other fans suspended belief. "I was waiting for him to come back to life," says Gabrielle Brechner, 17, a senior...
...things we do is offer very good rates and 24-hour turnaround," he said. "The whole system is pretty much computerized. We can fax out articles, courier articles, [send] articles [by Federal Express]--we're able...
...Attorney General Janet Reno says she too wants to reconsider the harsh mandatory sentences legislated by drug-war hawks during the Reagan-Bush era. Reno announced a sweeping review of federal drug- punishment policies to determine if packing prisons with small-time offenders -- say, sentencing a 19-year-old courier to five years for transporting as little as five grams of crack -- makes sense or justice...
...Courier transport of all specimens will be done using a puncture-resistant carrier identical to the one we use in the laboratory," Skane wrote in the memo. "Paper bags will no longer be used to package specimens. Clear biohazard bags will be used. Specimens collected in glass must be transported in a puncture-resistant container...