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Even as the I.R.A. was making history, its enemies were repeating it. Hours after De Chastelain?s report was released, Protestant paramilitaries continued their attacks on Catholic homes. The weapons of choice, pipe bombs built from parts in any hardware shop, are too easy to make for them ever to be effectively decommissioned. For Northern Ireland, it was a sober reminder that taking away arms may not remove the will to kill...
Interesting considerations have to be made when constructing objects, such as the fact that attaching colored tape to a block with toothpicks might not be the best option, because if the object were to fall, the picks could hurt someone’s head. (Pipe cleaners were the accepted alternative.) Also, the structure had to be “designed for resistance to average storms and be able to be quickly removed if a major hurricane is predicted,” according to a technical description...
...huge quantities of chemical toxins would have to be dumped into a reservoir to make many people sick, let alone kill them. (A U.N. study estimated that it would take 10 tons of potassium cyanide.) Drinking water might be threatened locally, however, if someone managed to tap the pipe going into a building or neighborhood or infiltrate a water-treatment facility. With this threat in mind, municipal water authorities have stepped up security...
Sound like a pipe dream? Perhaps. But I think it’s time for the administration to “slow down” and consider what students really need...
...stories of the cell and the cig also have eerily similar narrative arcs. The cigarette began as a convenient tobacco vehicle for soldiers in World War I—soldiers who might not live long enough to fix themselves a pipe. After the war, the cigarette quickly evolved into a dainty feminine article to be held aloft by society ladies during two-cheeked kisses and a brooding device for suave anti-social heroes. The early incarnation of the cell phone was an unsexy anvil-sized apparatus for doctors and moguls. Now the base has expanded to include gabby soccer moms...