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While ruminating on the spiritual ramifications of interviewing Kathy Ireland, Sean almost got us killed when he missed a turn and tried to get to an expressway on-ramp from the left lane of a four-lane road, nearly taking us through the sign on the shoulder. That set us talking about Clinton's new health plan...
...plan outlines one 10-lane bridge, one elevated loop ramp north of the Charles River and a three-lane tunnel under the river. It would cost $1.28 billion...
...largest work in the show, River of the Moon, 1992, consists of a tangle of thick lead pipes connected to what seems to be a pumping station. These entrails snake up the museum ramp, apparently disappearing into the walls or the floor and re-emerging; they are connected to black boxes through whose glass tops a puddle of mercury can be seen welling up and vanishing as the pump switches on and off. It is obviously meant as a metaphor for the circulation of fluids inside the human body, with lunar input. But it is a ponderous affair and mechanically...
...been sold to the Ryder Truck Rental Co. in Alabama. Ryder officials turned up the license plate XA70668 and reported that the van had been rented out of the company's Jersey City office. By Wednesday, only three days after the piece of metal had been found on the ramp, the FBI was in contact with Ryder officials in Jersey City, who had no difficulty remembering the van and its renter; he had been making a pest of himself...
...theory is that an unstable explosive was used that went off prematurely -- perhaps when the van was going over a speed bump -- and blew up the bombers along with their bomb. The blast seems to have occurred either on the ramp or at the bottom of it -- not ordinarily a spot where bombers would park, get out of the van and take an elevator up to the street. A foul odor in the crater could point to the presence of bodies in the wreckage, but it could have other causes as well...