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...right diet and a Westernized version of Hindu mysticism could prevent or even reverse disease. Fuerst became a Chopramaniac. He meditated 30 minutes a day, prayed for five and recited Chopra's 10 Keys to Happiness. He showed up at every Chopra speaking engagement within a 200-mile radius. Once Chopra joshed, "What are you doing here? You've heard all this before!" Fuerst didn't care. He had nothing to lose...
...destroying equipment and munitions, landed close to where Hizballah had been firing a mortar at a nearby Israeli ground unit. The second area, located in the U.N. base itself, was hit mainly by "proximity-fuzed" shells, which are designed to detonate above the ground so as to widen the radius of impact. The use of that ordnance, which is especially effective at killing and maiming, explains why an exact count of the dead has never been made: there were simply too many shredded body parts...
...Montana Justice Department yesterday said a closure order, signed by an FBI agent, had been issued for airspace within a five-mile radius of Lincoln...
Levitan said the fence in front of Lamont Library will be moved in order to accommodate fire engines' wide turning radius, as they will no longer be able to make the wide turn onto Mass. Ave. from Harvard Street...
...which might be called technology-jinxed. In New York City last Monday, the three big area airports briefly ceased business. The cause was a bomb threat to the obscure yet vital New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), where 200 air-traffic controllers usher planes through a 150-mile radius around New York City. "There was reason to believe the caller had knowledge of the building and how it worked," says Phil Barbarello, head of the local traffic controllers' union. So the control center evacuated, and for 75 minutes no planes landed: tens of thousands of passengers across...