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...when it was conceived, critics argued that the power plant, which provides energy for Harvard's teaching hospitals, was expensive and inefficient. In the 1980's the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection held long, tortuous hearings over whether Harvard should be allowed to set up an array of diesel electricity generators in the Longwood Medical Area...
...learned that a salesman picked out Terry Nichols from a lineup. The receipt has McVeigh's fingerprints on it. According to a government source, the same phony name was used to purchase a second ton of fertilizer. Agents have also found evidence that Nichols bought 55 gal. of diesel fuel...
There are more than 800 different commercially available ANFO preparations. One of the more common mixtures uses pellets of ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel to form a semiliquid that has a consistency of mayonnaise. Because of ANFO's stability, it is usually transported in heavy- duty trucks that often resemble cement mixers. Or construction crews can mix it on site by combining bags of high-grade ammonium nitrate with drums full of fuel...
While it is doubtful that the ANFO used in the Oklahoma blast was purchased or stolen, someone with the right kind of knowledge could have concocted it by using ammonium- nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel. The fertilizer is not as pure a preparation as what is used for demolition work and has to be treated before it can be converted into an explosive substance. But such information is available in books published by fringe presses and on the Internet...
...feel your pain. I really do. I had to choose between Harvard and the Nashville Auto Diesel College, and it was the hardest decision I've ever had to make. I finally allowed the powers of the cosmos (and not my Mom, my significant other or my shrink) to help...