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Fellow workers called Thomas McIlvane a "time bomb" after he was fired last year from the Royal Oak, Mich., post office for insubordination. "Everybody said if he didn't get his job back, he was going to come in and shoot," postal worker Bob Cibulka said. "Everyone was talking about it." Last week the 31-year-old former Marine proved them right. Armed with a sawed-off .22- cal. Ruger Rimfire rifle, he entered the back sorting room of the 1940s- style office and killed his supervisor and the labor arbitrator who had turned down his appeal for reinstatement...
...profits and tight money. American firms are on track to issue some $320 billion worth of bonds this year, up sharply from $235 billion in 1990. Owners of small businesses are likewise lining up for low-priced funds. Jeff Tuma, 39, who runs the Embers restaurant in Mount Pleasant, Mich., decided last summer to renovate the eatery and launch a catering service to go with it. "Banks are obviously looking for good loans right now, and they have tons of money out there for the right people," Tuma says...
...intended AIDS-prevention programs have failed to speak the language of the groups that are most at risk. When Johnson made his announcement, it surely sent shudders deepest through locker rooms, high schools and inner-city homes across the country where teenagers idolize the smiling big man from Lansing, Mich., who managed to rise from a family of 12 to become a role model around the world. "Clearly this is tragic," said Norm Nickens, chairman of the National Minority AIDS Council. "But we couldn't ask for a better spokesman...
Johnson, from Lansing, Mich., was married in his home state on Sept. 14 to longtime girlfriend Cookie Kelly. He has a son, Andre, who lives in Lansing...
...cousins Librium and Valium, it was safer than barbiturates. As an added bonus, Halcion did not linger in the body the way most of its predecessors did, and therefore it did not leave people groggy the next day. Within a few years, the drug, produced by Upjohn of Kalamazoo, Mich., became the most prescribed sleeping pill in the world. In 1990 American pharmacists filled more than 7 million orders. Satisfied customers include Secretary of State James Baker, who finds Halcion handy on long plane trips. "Time for a blue bomb," he sometimes announces before naps, referring to the color...