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...prey. They can tell by the handmade wooden boxes and by the tiny, handcrafted screws that he is a meticulous, even compulsive, man. He spends hours, they say, cutting, filing and whittling little bits of metal and wood, removing any hints of their origin. According to retired FBI bomb expert James Ronay, the bomber also assembles and disassembles the whole thing several times before he is through. He has "an uncontrollable urge to fool with this thing as much as possible," Ronay explains. "And ultimately you put it down and have it kill somebody -- that's your ultimate gratification...
Music: Pearl Jam's expert mix of power and melody...
...those who are fed up with binge drinking, the experts offer this advice: don't get even, get mad. "They must speak up for their rights," says Henry Wechsler, a public health expert who led the Harvard study. "If your roommate gets drunk every night, you demand either a new roommate or that you be moved." Wechsler is quick to point out that he doesn't want to get rid of drinking, just drunkenness. With up to 85% of college students imbibing at least some of the time, total prohibition is not practical, he says, but colleges can insist...
...perennial boys' favorite is a loser this season, with market leader Tyco having "another really bad year," an expert says. Price cuts -- currently as deep as 30% -- may help move the product...
...majority support for cutting the subsidies that upper-income Americans receive for retirement, health care, mortgage interest and farming. Relatively modest cuts in these giveaways, and in others for such favored industries as mining and oil drilling, could save the Treasury more than $40 billion a year, according to expert testimony gathered by the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. The panel is scheduled to submit recommendations to the President this week. But the commission's chairman, Senator Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, already stirred the pot last Friday when he and panel vice chairman John Danforth of Missouri...