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...confessed pipe bomber's 3,000-mile cross-country crime spree, which injured six and dredged up painful memories of everything from anthrax to the Unabomber, ended last week with Helder's arrest on an empty stretch of Nevada interstate highway. By turning on the cell phone in his car and dispatching a series of letters to his family and a student newspaper, Helder had ensured his arrest. The knottier problem is divining his motives. Far from fitting the usual profile of an angry loner, the smiling young suspect in the Kurt Cobain T shirt was an easygoing student...
Were drugs involved? It's still not clear. Though Helder was previously cited for possession of a marijuana pipe and at least one classmate describes him as "burnt out," a lawman involved in his capture noticed no signs of intoxication. "It appeared that he hadn't been drinking," says Washoe County, Nev., Sheriff Dennis Balaam. "I asked him if he was taking any type of medication, and he said no." Some lean toward an organic explanation--emerging schizophrenia, perhaps--for his cosmic goof gone wrong...
...development domestically. U.S. firms spent more than $27 billion last year buying Canadian oil and gas companies, and the government of Mexico is considering 18 separate U.S. proposals to bring to the Baja peninsula liquefied-natural-gas terminals, which would receive shipments from all over the world and pipe gas to the U.S. European and U.S. energy firms have at least that in common: they know a good deal when they...
...drug causes death or severe side effects. Companies should be forced to provide information on the risk and all possible side effects to keep the participants as safe as possible. As long as profit is the main goal of the researchers, however, patient safety will be something of a pipe dream. TODD KITCHENS Emporia, Kans...
...Noted "For sure." LUKE HELDER, 21-year-old prime suspect in a string of pipe-bomb attacks that injured six people in the American Midwest, to a judge who asked him if he understood that any statements he made could be used against...