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...least one friend describing his plans to make a bomb and possibly target a specific teacher at Palm Harbor Middle School. The friend's mother alerted sheriff's deputies, who said they found a partly assembled bomb in McClain's bedroom that would have had a "kill radius...
Within a 50-yd. radius of the scene, soldiers worked to trace the origin of the shots. Fearing that other shooters might be training their sights on his men, Dagan ordered an armored personnel carrier and a Merkava tank to rumble up to secure a 500-yd. perimeter. The soldiers traced the attack to a Palestinian police post near the road. They found spent cartridges inside; the police were nowhere to be seen. Dagan ordered the post demolished. As darkness fell, the colonel reopened the three-mile road connecting the Gaza Strip's 5,000 settlers to Israel...
...land within close radius of Harvard, Knowles says, is already given over to parking...
...hope all my colleagues from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida--anyone within a 1,000-mile radius of Manhattan who considers himself a New Yorker--enjoys the last seven games of the 2000 baseball season. I am ready to suffer through your happiness...
...preponderance of armed security detail, it's momentarily safe to go running in the 80-block radius surrounding the candidates' hotel - even at three o'clock in the morning. Remember: Secret Service = Your Tax Dollars at Work...