Word: melee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buttocks. He was distraught over the 1993 destruction of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and, about that time, bought a TEC-9 semiautomatic assault weapon, a gun banned by law last year. Those who knew him in Michigan said McVeigh was always armed. But Linda Haner-Mele, 35, his supervisor at a security company in the Niagara Falls area, where he worked briefly, insists to Time, "He was a follower, not a leader. He'd do whatever you asked him, but he didn't have any ideas of his own. That's why I don't believe he could...
...DeNoble and Mele were hired to find a substitute for nicotine that would have a less harmful effect on the heart. Philip Morris insisted on intense secrecy, so much so that laboratory rats were smuggled into the Richmond, Virginia, facility sometimes under cover of night. The researchers were instructed not to discuss the project with anyone...
DeNoble and Mele set up an experiment in which rats could administer - nicotine to themselves by pressing one of two levers. DeNoble said rats would thump the bar as often as 90 times in 12 hours to get the nicotine, vs. just 12 times a day for a saline solution. Even more telling, the researchers found that for nicotine combined with acetaldehyde, a product of burning cigarettes, the rats would press 500 times in 12 hours as opposed to 120 times in 12 hours for nicotine alone. "Our results demonstrated for the first time that nicotine shared common characteristics with...
...industry. At about the same time -- the summer of 1983 -- the family of Rose Cipollone, a lifetime cigarette smoker who died of lung cancer, had filed suit against Philip Morris and other tobacco companies, contending that they falsely represented the health risks of cigarettes. Philip Morris flew DeNoble and Mele to New York City to brief company executives on their research. According to Mele, however, when DeNoble explained that the rat experiment was a strong indication of the addictiveness of nicotine, one executive said, "Why should I risk a billion-dollar industry on a rat pressing a lever...
...April 1984 a supervisor summoned DeNoble and ordered him to turn off the machines, kill the rats and turn over his notes. A few days later, DeNoble came to work and found that "the animals were gone; the data was gone. Everything was gone." Attempts by DeNoble and Mele to publish their findings were blocked...