Word: metallism
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...shirtbox-size bombs, delivered by mail or private courier, were packaged in brown cardboard and wrapped with tape. Several bore the return address of an iron-and-metal company in Pennsylvania. In each was a fishing-tackle box. When the latch was opened, it connected an electrical circuit and set off several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore...
...December 19, after Rosenberg and his wife returned from a vacation, he cut open the top of the box with a knife rather than opening the flaps, which would have activated the bombs, according to the Globe. When he saw a metal cylinder and wires in the package, he and his wife ran out of the house and he called the police...
...soldiers" whom Zhirinovsky, clad in fatigues, had sent off from the Moscow airport last January to "fight American imperialism" in Iraq. Two floors below, a store called the Rock Shop hawked copies of his newspapers (Zhirinovsky's Falcon and Zhirinovsky's Truth), as well as cassettes by heavy-metal groups like Anthrax and Pestilence. Visitors could also purchase copies of his autobiography, Last Thrust to the South...
...city has tried one security measure after another. A new $106 million, 1,200-prisoner-capacity county jail, opened late last year, is already overflowing. Metal detectors were installed in the sheriff's department in October, and the Milwaukee public-school system, with 100,000 students, started random weapons searches this fall at the middle and high schools. "I have in front of me a list of all my kids who have died between 12/92 and 12/ 93," says superintendent Howard Fuller. "On that list are 15 kids under...
...Scientists have identified the defective gene that causes Wilson's disease, a disorder that destroys the liver and brain. The gene prevents the liver from removing the excess copper that enters the body in food; eventually, the metal hurts the liver and leaks into the brain. The finding could lead to a screening test and more effective treatment...