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Each shoe contained about 4 oz. of PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate), a powerful explosive produced by the ton for military and construction use. Some was mixed with a plasticizer to produce a substance that resembled putty. More was in short lengths of detonation cord, which looks like a clothes line and is used to cut heavy steel objects like girders. Packed around the PETN was a whitish powder that turned out to be homemade TATP, or triacetone triperoxide. If Reid had succeeded in lighting the fuses sticking out of his soles, the TATP would have blown instantly, setting off the less...
...Hunter Valley, famed for its wines, I had visions of a romantic Loire Valley-style adventure transplanted Down Under: festively colored, majestic balloons awaiting me with jets of golden flame roaring into their bellies and liveried waiters serving flutes of champagne. But this is no-frills, no-nonsense Oz, after all, and visitors to the valley can expect, instead, 4:30 a.m. wake-ups for the predawn launch, a dress code of jeans, caps and collared shirts to protect heads and necks from the heat of the flame, and a Balloon Aloft pilot who greets bleary-eyed voyagers by saying...
...Americans who have had a kidney stone, you may have been told to cut down on calcium to prevent a recurrence. Well, you can forget that. Italian researchers report that a diet low in salt and very low in protein (about 4 oz. daily)--and with a normal intake of calcium--is significantly better at preventing the painful problem. Even more surprising, the researchers found that low-calcium diets may actually promote kidney stones...
...traveled all the way to Oz for his heart, but someday patients with advanced cardiac disease may not have to go so far. Almost 20 years after the bulky Jarvik artificial heart failed so miserably, AbioMed, a Massachusetts-based bioengineering company, developed a new, miniaturized version called the AbioCor. The device, totally self-contained (except for a belt-worn battery pack), was implanted in six terminally ill patients; the first, Robert Tools, survived for five months, many months longer than his doctors dared hope. Doctors have had even more success with a small pump that takes over just...
...SUNDAY NIGHT Some of its efforts were mixed (Band of Brothers) or complete misses (The Mind of the Married Man). But with strong additions Six Feet Under and Project Greenlight, returning stalwarts Oz, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Emmy-winning Sex and the City and an utterly transcendent third season of The Sopranos, the cable network laid claim to the true must-see--albeit must-pay-to-see--night...