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...pattern of blast damage is more consistent with dynamite than with the plastic explosives often favored by terrorists. Fox also believes that "the velocity of the blast indicates that ((the explosive)) is in the dynamite family, which includes TNT and the so- called witches' brew of fertilizer and fuel oil. Most of our guys who have been around a while seem to think that's what it will turn out to be -- witches' brew...
...happier, though still controversial, note, Clinton unveiled a program to invest $17 billion of federal money over the next five years in civilian high- tech projects. Much of the cash would be diverted from military applications to development of such efforts as a car running on "clean" fuel and an "information superhighway" linking computers...
Under the direction of Noah Kupferberg, the three male convicts, provocatively, are played by women. This literal feminization of the script raises interesting questions about the construction of masculinity, but also presents many challenges to the complex male interactions, explicitly violent and implicitly homoerotic, which fuel Genet's script. To the credit of the production, these tensions, though at times stylized and cliche, are generally sustained and credible...
Drug dealers fuel the violence. Even when food and water were hard to come by in the weeks after Hurricane Andrew, crack and pot were readily available. One Florida City dealer, flush with a supply of 5,000 nickel bags, was selling marijuana "like a McDonald's drive-through, even taking tools in trade for drugs," says local police sergeant Gail Bowen...
...prime target will be the energy tax, a broad-based levy on the heat content of fuel designed to raise $49 billion through 1997. It was sure to pinch not only transportation but also steelmakers, tire manufacturers and other heavy industries. "We're going to get it taken care of," says Tom Donohue, president of the 7.8 million-member American Trucking Association. "No point in talking to members of Congress right now," he adds airily. Wait until they get the paperwork, he says, and then he and his associates will weigh...