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...House press secretary, bent close to his ear. CNN, McCurry said, was reporting that an explosion had destroyed part of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Stay on top of it, Clinton replied. The President then escorted Ciller to a meeting in the Cabinet Room. It was there that Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff, passed the President a yellow legal pad with notes scribbled across the page with Panetta's trademark blue felt-tip pen. "Half of federal building in O.K. City blown up--expect heavy casualties," the note read. "Called Janet Reno--she has dispatched...
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory announced they have developed a flexible superconducting tape that can carry 100 times more current than similar materials. There are two key developments here, says TIME science contributor Leon Jaroff. One is flexibility. Previous materials had been brittle, and snapped easily at the extremely low temperatures necessary for superconductivity. The other key is that the new material conducts electricity with no resistance at the temperature of liquid nitrogen, minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit. This makes it much cheaper to maintain and use than other superconducting materials that need to be cooled to a much...
...most prestgious of the annual journalism awards -- for its reporting on the links between the region's crime wave and corruption in the criminal justice system. Coverage of crime poverty, illiteracy and drug abuse dominated the other categories, whose winners were announced this afternoon. Among them: Washington Post writer Leon Dash and photographer Lucian Perkins won the explanatory journalism prize for their book-length profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with poverty. The national reporting award went to Tony Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal for stories about working conditions in low-wage America. The Journal...
...sting was launched after the city received an anonymous complaint in January, according to Boyer, who conducted the operation with Leon Lishley of the Cambridge police...
...Guatemala last week, President Ramiro de Leon Carpio said the military will investigate the allegations against Alpirez. The colonel, now second in command at an army base in Guatemala City, has not made a statement of any kind. For her part, Harbury is planning to file a lawsuit once the threads of responsibility are sorted out. She may have learned the truth. That, however, is not the same as having all the answers...