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...still ticking. Rand Corp. study for the U.S. Pentagon warns that the world will accumulate enough plutonium -- the radioactive ingredient used in many nuclear warheads -- to build 87,000 "primitive" bombs by 2003. Weapons dismantled by the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. will account for 199 tons of the lethal substance. Adding to the problem will be more than 300 tons of plutonium extracted from spent uranium fuel retrieved from nuclear power plants. "Separated plutonium held in inventory," says the report, "could be diverted and reworked to make it weapon-ready in only days or weeks...
This week O'Brien is sweating out the case of Lloyd Schlup, 32, a man who has been in prison for nearly half his life and who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Friday unless Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan commutes his sentence. Schlup, who was originally imprisoned for stealing a pickup truck in 1978, was convicted for assisting two other men to stab a fellow inmate to death in 1984. Since taking on the case in 1992, O'Brien, a former public defender who now runs the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, has collected...
...House, fears that Clinton's health-care bill will become more vulnerable to attack -- wrongly, in her view -- as too expensive and too likely to promote a growth of government bureaucracy. On state and local levels at least, charges of excessive spending and too much bureaucracy have been proving lethal...
...lures them to his home with all their valuables, administers a deadly "vaccination," and burns the bodies in a basement incinerator. Patient after patient puts his trust in the doctor only to find himself waiting, in a tiny room filled with the belongings of other victims, for the lethal injection to take its toll...
Soon enough the protagonists have acquired heavy weapons and are going at each other as people do in films produced by Joel Silver, he of the Die Hards and the Lethal Weapons -- i.e., frequently, spectacularly, preposterously. Stallone and Snipes both play this nonsense tongue-in-cheekily. Sandra Bullock has an attractive naivete as a scholarly policewoman who hangs out with Sly. But ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members. A little political correctness in that...