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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cabin and into infamy. He makes constant eye contact, laughs easily and often; when it's time for a photograph, he jokingly pops out a fake front tooth, as if to parody the deranged mountain-man image he inhabits in the public's mind. He is, for the most part, affable, polite and sincere. It would almost be easy to forget that he mailed or delivered at least 16 package bombs and then logged the results with the glee of a little boy tearing the wings off a fly. Over the course of 18 years, the Unabomber killed three people...
...comes Ted's book, charging that David's decision was in some part based on resentment. "I think he's wrong there," David says, while acknowledging that "there have been times when I felt some resentment of Ted" and that Ted sometimes made him "very angry...
...expected, I must admit, a more united front. Only now do I realize their desire to turn Ted in may not have been unilateral: Linda was afraid of this man she had never met, while David loved at least a part of him. That their marriage could survive such pressure--even before the media wave--says a lot about...
...fantasy debate over raiding Social Security for general government operations is especially weird because what is actually happening is the opposite. Both parties have agreed in principle that some part of the future government surplus should go to saving Social Security. In other words, general tax revenues will be poured into the Social Security trust fund and used to finance benefit checks...
There are two schools of thought about the deejay-rock boom. The first school holds that deejays in rock bands are part of a new multidimensional wave of artists who, instead of composing with just notes, compose with whole chunks of songs. The second school of thought holds that people in the first school are what's wrong with education today. Says Jim Tremayne, editor of DJ Times: "It seems to me some rock bands are just trying to cultivate an air of coolness with the kids...