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...manic as ever, sweating by the pint as his body bounds around, trying to keep up with the rapid-fire humor synapses of his brain. His jokes run from nonsensical (wet-burka competitions and "Enron Hubbard, head of the Church of Profitology") to predictable ("We used to pay for powder in little white envelopes"). Comedians who play closer to the edge, like Chris Rock or Andy Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last month...
...barracks. After setting fire to several buildings in town and waiting until half the garrison mobilized to douse the flames, more than 1,000 rebels attacked the depleted post. Reinforcements arriving the next day found the soldiers' bodies in a line stretched across the sandbag ramparts. Many bore the powder-burn marks of close-range executions. The garrison commander was found decapitated and quartered, his head, arms and legs stuffed in a sleeping bag. All weapons and ammunition had been taken. Only three soldiers survived. The attack, four days after the sixth anniversary of the Maoist rebellion, was the bloodiest...
...military and construction use. Some was mixed with a plasticizer to produce a substance that resembled putty. More was in short lengths of detonation cord, which looks like a clothes line and is used to cut heavy steel objects like girders. Packed around the PETN was a whitish powder that turned out to be homemade TATP, or triacetone triperoxide. If Reid had succeeded in lighting the fuses sticking out of his soles, the TATP would have blown instantly, setting off the less combustible but more destructive PETN main charge...
...amid several positive steps last week in the nation's recovery from the anthrax attacks--a doubling of the reward for information to $2.5 million; news that scientists at the Institute for Genomic Research in Maryland were close to making a genetic fingerprint of the anthrax powder; the reopening of the freshly decontaminated Hart Senate Office Building--USAMRIID itself was under attack. The Army was scrambling last week to answer charges that controls inside the lab over the past decade were at best lax and at worst scandalous. The reports added support to a growing suspicion that whoever sent...
...fashioned fingerprints? Israeli investigators would certainly answer yes. A new chemical for tracing fingerprints, developed jointly by U.S. and Israeli scientists, gave investigators their first break in the hunt for the Palestinian gunmen who killed a government minister in a Jerusalem hotel last October. Imdamediome, a yellow powder that is dissolved in liquid, reacts with the amino acids in sweat left by the touch of a finger but invisible to the naked eye. Investigators used the chemical to analyze a newspaper found in the hotel room reportedly occupied by the assassins of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi. Conventional methods...