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...High School who ran through the halls warning students and staff while Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were conducting a massacre that killed 12 students and a teacher; of colon cancer; in Littleton, Colo. On hall duty at the time, she escorted students to hiding areas, put out a pipe-bomb fire and stayed by the side of basketball coach Dave Sanders as he died on the floor of a classroom...
Although the medical examiner wrote in his report that Wilcox’s death was “most probably accidental, change of pressure in gas pipe extinguishing light, allowing raw gas to fill bed room,” his family and friends, as well as Harvard administrators, knew that his death was self-inflicted. Four days after the death, Lee wrote to Gay that Wilcox “committed suicide by inhalation...
Imagine a jet engine that doesn't pollute the atmosphere, flies at seven times the speed of sound and doesn't carry any fuel. Sound like a blue-sky pipe dream? One day last July, 300 km above the South Australian Desert, that dream became a reality in the form of the HyShot scramjet. A scramjet (that's top-gun shorthand for "supersonic ramjet") is a jet engine that is powered by oxygen it scoops out of the air as it flies, so it's not weighed down by a fuel tank (though it needs an initial boost...
...radiator-pipe-sealing proves ineffectual, though, Coveney must resort to more coercive means—possibly including, but by no means limited to, the introduction of some really tough cats—to remove the mice from Lowell House. These displaced country mice must learn what Aesop knew so well: the city is no place for a mouse...
...Osman Petmezci and Astrid Eyzaguirre in September seemed to go like clockwork. Acting on a tip from America's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), police nabbed the pair on suspicion of plotting to bomb a U.S. military base near Heidelberg. After searching the couple's apartment, investigators found five rudimentary pipe bombs, raw material for 18 kilos of explosive powder, and a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Petmezci and Eyzaguirre are now in custody, awaiting trial. Another victory for German law enforcement? Not quite. CID's Aug. 29 warning wasn't the first call from CID, but the third. The first...