Word: packed
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...disguised as ground crew, were two FBI agents, members of the bureau's supersecretive counterintelligence squad. As Nicholson headed for the open door of his plane, they blocked his path and told him he was under arrest. At that moment, three more squad members slid out from among the pack of passengers, eased up on either side of him and led him away. After agent Michael Lonergan read him his rights, Nicholson spoke just one sentence: "I want to talk to a lawyer...
Difficult as resettling the returnees may prove, the thorniest problem Rwanda faces will be how to address the demands for justice. Some 83,000 genocide suspects already pack standing-room-only prisons--and to date not a single one has been tried. As refugees arrive home, thousands more will be denounced as suspected murderers. For the moment, say government officials, only the most notorious will be arrested. As for the rest, investigators will be under orders to move as slowly as possible so as not to cause panic; in this tightly knit society the slaughter was so intimate--neighbors killing...
...Jaguar XK8. Undoubtedly the queen of the pack, the XK8 is a sumptuous work of art whose engine is the first V-8 ever produced by Jaguar and only the fourth engine in its history. The price is for royal bloods too at $69,900 for the convertible model. It is the only one of the new models to offer a backseat--though just big enough to cart home the groceries in leather. It's the British company's first sports car since the showpiece--and mechanically damned--XKE ended production 22 years...
ValuJet maintenance chief David Gentry said his company accepted blame, but he insisted that it was SabreTech's job to equip the canisters with safety caps and pack the shipment properly. Failure to prevent this incompetence was laid to inspectors for the FAA, who complained that overwork and understaffing had made it tough to oversee the fast-growing ValuJet. Yet an FAA manager said he called for a review of ValuJet's authorization to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades shortly after taking off from Miami. The manager, John Tutora, said his report was ignored...
...Smoking is not generally linked to BREAST CANCER, but it may be a risk factor for some women. Half of all women carry an enzyme that breaks down tobacco carcinogens inefficiently. For them a pack a day may quadruple the risk of developing the cancer after menopause...