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...sifted from the tons of debris that rained down over Lockerbie, Scotland, may at last reveal who blew up PAN AM 103. While both Syrian and Palestinian terrorists have been suspected of planting the bomb, the focus has shifted to the Libyan intelligence service. Scottish police, baffled by a fingernail-size bit of electronic circuitry from the wreckage, shipped it off to Washington. When FBI lab analysts compared the shard with the printed-circuit boards of two unexploded bombs taken from Libyan agents in Africa, it was a match. FBI agents and Scottish investigators tracked the timers to a Swiss...
RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS. "The Greatest Show on Earth" lives up to its own grandiose billing in its 121st year. From the Crescendo of Cats to the fingernail-biting Globe of Death, a motorcycle thriller, this all- American tradition is sure to delight. In New York City through April 28, then on to Providence, New Haven and Hartford...
Sophomore Jon Pratt's beautiful shots, always a fingernail above the tin, frustrated Andy Lisle, who lost his first game...
...movie, a marauding mollusk would probably be played by a giant clam. But the real-life monster swimming amuck in the Great Lakes is a tiny creature the size of a fingernail. With its jaunty brown stripes, a solitary zebra mussel looks cute, not threatening. The trouble is that the animal is anything but a loner, and its tendency to form colonies of thousands, even millions, makes it threatening indeed...
...close in the sense that both sides were so good," Coale said. "But it wasn't at all a fingernail-biting type debate...