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...weapons were brutal: pipe bombs set inside harmless-looking packages that exploded when moved. The first victim, Steven Christensen, 31, a Salt Lake City businessman and Mormon bishop, was killed outside his office on Oct. 15, 1985. A few hours later in a nearby suburb, a second bomb took the life of Kathleen Sheets, 50, the wife of J. Gary Sheets, a former partner of Christensen...
...next day a third pipe bomb exploded in downtown Salt Lake City. This time, however, the victim survived -- and eventually became the prime suspect in the two murders. Authorities believed Mark Hofmann, a dealer in rare documents, many on early Mormon history, had been injured while setting a bomb in his own car, possibly to direct suspicion away from himself. Last week the 15-month investigation against Hofmann came to a close when he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder in the bombings and to two counts of theft by deception for selling forged or nonexistent documents...
Many educators think the prochastity movement is a pipe dream. "We can't fool ourselves into thinking that abstinence is the solution," says Mary Luke of San Francisco/Alameda Planned Parenthood. "These kids have made their decisions, and we're going to have to deal with the reality of it." But there is no doubt that the threat of AIDS and the need to defuse conservative critics have made the abstinence message politically popular to left and right alike. "Our preferred way to deal with sexual activity is to say no," says Patricia Davis-Scott, clinic director at two Chicago high...
...POETRY'S always been pretty accessible to everybody except pipe-bound academics and critics, at first. The reason is probably that I've been following William Carlos Williams' tradition in writing in the living American language and speech, writing in the living tongue, rather than an imitation of a literary tongue....It seems obvious. I don't know why other poets don't do it....It's like poets do themselves out of their audience...
...different methods employed by Trump and the city are best illustrated in the building of the skating surface. Trump opted to employ more workers and lay the surface quickly. In a single week his crew installed the pipe and tested it for leaks with water under high pressure. Then, in one day, from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m., 290 people poured concrete until the floor was done...