Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proved anything but airtight. An estimated 10,000 Haitians cross the Dominican border each day to buy fuel, which they lug back in plastic jugs or pulley across ravines. At the Malpasse border crossing east of the capital, wooden fishing boats openly ply barrels of illegal gasoline and diesel from an open-air depot on the Dominican side of the island...
...larger vessels that audaciously evade U.N. picket boats. The U.S., Canada and Argentina have stationed warships offshore, but are unable to maneuver in shallow waters. That leaves the jagged shoreline to "coast huggers," wildcat fuel runners who use the cover of darkness to spirit drums of gas and diesel into Haiti's biggest harbors...
Watching a putrid diesel bus slowly slogging along under unused electrical tram wires has to be one of the most existentially challenging situations in life. You could move into the "fast" lane to add a few years to your life, but then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...
...Environmental Protection Agency and the Harvard School of Public Health estimate that up to 60,000 American deaths a year are caused by particles of soot -- an old-fashioned form of air pollution generated by factories and diesel trucks -- even though soot levels seldom exceed legal limits. Most victims are children and elderly people with respiratory problems, and asthmatics of all ages...
Finally, the gang proceeded to actual assembly of the bombs. Last Wednesday two men brought to the Queens safe house diesel fuel from a gas station in Yonkers, a northern suburb, operated by one of the suspects, Mohammad Saleh. Some of the gang also reportedly made specific preparations to flee the country within a few days. The FBI and city police, who had been watching the assembly through concealed television cameras (which later pictured their own raid on the factory) and listening through monitoring devices, decided they had better move immediately. Said FBI special agent in charge James...