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Ammonium nitrate is a double-edged chemical. Spread it on a field and it becomes a benign fertilizer that helps produce bumper crops. Mix it with fuel oil and it becomes the kind of deadly bomb that shook Oklahoma City last week. The U.S. makes 8 million tons of the white crystalline compound each year, and it is widely available in gardening centers, supply warehouses and at construction sites. But just because anyone can buy ammonium nitrate for about 11¢ a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place...
...stocked with foods from Japan, but if you don't know exactly what you're looking for and don't speak Japanese, you'll be wandering a foreign country. Although little or no explanation is provided in English, if you want Japanese vegetables, noodles or even Japanese pancake mix, Kotobukiya will have it. You can get any variety of Japanese newspaper, magazine or manga (Japanese comics). The comperhensive array of food, Japanese-style cups and bowls and goods gave me the feeling that Kotobukiya served a large and loyal following. If you can only get your favorite toothbrush and hairbrush...
...startled and depressed him. "The white people who stayed at the church wanted things done their way," Stroupe recalls. "And the blacks weren't talking, but it was clear they wanted some changes." What intrigued Stroupe, and made him stay on, was that the congregation was an unusual ethnic mix of white holdovers and black newcomers. Oakhurst's most difficult problem, he decided, could become its greatest strength...
...artist of his generation. Born in 1941, he is of the same artistic age as Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Susan Rothenberg (whom he married in 1989), but the artists whose work he most counts for are younger; it is safe to say that hardly a corner of the mix of idioms at the end of the 1980s, from video to body pieces to process art to language games of various sorts, escaped Nauman's influence...
Furthermore, the newer houses are also equipped with the facilities one would expect from a college dorm, creating hang-out spots where different people can mix. Such spots are rare in most river houses...