Word: piped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned out to have planted it. This "modified Munchausen syndrome," in FBI terminology, occurs in someone who wants to be a hero so badly that he creates emergencies so he can rescue people. Jewell, a police wannabe, fit this profile and also had the characteristics of people who use pipe bombs--white single men in their 30s or 40s with a martial bent...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I have absolutely no apologies for taking contributions from working people, whether they're auto workers or pipe fitters...
...ratty pajamas with no good explanation for why he's there--no helpful "Thanks for putting me up here while I am on my way to Shropshire-on-Blandings," say--we're most interested. When we see good Meg, who seems most unfortunately to be addicted to helium shots, pipe away at the calm, turtle-like Petey about fried toast, we want to know how on earth these two came together...
...Wonderland dog track, but he's all smiles. Sitting in his modest office, I offer some bland questions but he fires off detailed responses. We talk about everything, from the track's former incarnation as a "Japanese-style amusement park" to the eight miles of underground snow-melting steel pipe to the "Rhode Island baby-sand" surface installed for the dogs' safety. I ask him about the state's involvement and he explains it thoroughly, all the way down to the "piss-catchers," the state inspectors who perform the urine tests on the dogs...
...been closed." He added that the documents can be considered "historical information" rather than evidence in an ongoing investigation, and the details of the episode are now a "historical footnote." Jewell was widely heralded as a hero for spotting the suspicious knapsack that contained a crude but deadly pipe bomb and moving crowds away from danger. But three days later, the FBI leaked that he was a suspect in their investigation -- not their prime or only suspect, but the only one made public. Since that day, Jewell's reputation has been under a dark cloud, but Wednesday's ruling...