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...small circle of people who knew Wells, it came as a shock when the reticent and retiring 46-year-old appeared at a teller's window in a bank near Erie, Pa., demanded money and lifted his shirt to reveal a bomb locked around his neck. Wells fled but was stopped and pulled from his car seconds later by passing state troopers alerted by 911 callers in the bank. As he sat handcuffed and cross-legged on the ground, Wells warned troopers there was a bomb beneath his T shirt and pleaded for help in getting it off. Officers backed...
What many citizens don't realize is how much the country's spiritual attitudes are changing, says Jamhari Makruf, executive director of the Center for Study of Islam and Society at Jakarta's Islam Universitas Negeri. He has conducted surveys that reveal a rising religious consciousness in a country struggling to find its democratic footing since the downfall of dictator Suharto in 1998. Some people are adopting more puritanical versions of Islamic practice, the surveys show. But most are finding solace in characteristically tolerant forms that blend the Koran with local traditions like Javanese mysticism. Until the bombings, Makruf didn...
...propulsion. His first night in town, as he sits on the edge of his bed in a hotel bathrobe and floppy slippers, he looks like a sad samurai in forced retirement. The next morning, he is startled out of sleep by the bedroom drapes briskly, noisily, automatically opening to reveal slashes of sunlight--that's his wake-up call. Tokyo has another alarm clock in store for Bob. He needs the jolt of friendship, and he finds it in Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young wife who is as restless as Bob is. When she asks how long he's staying...
...size, carrying a full load of instruments, many of them attached to an agile mobile arm. A thermal-emission spectrometer will study background radiation for clues to rock composition; another spectrometer will look for minerals and iron; a third will emit X rays and alpha particles, which will also reveal what rocks are made of. More dramatic, a rock-abrasion tool equipped with diamond-tipped grinding wheels will gouge samples open...
...strikes in March 1993 by the city's Muslim underworld that killed 257 people. Last week, on the same day as the latest Bombay blasts, the government-run Archeological Survey of India (ASI) lent official support to the Hindu fundamentalist cause, declaring that new excavations at Ayodhya reveal the mosque was built over an elaborate Hindu temple. Several academics scornfully dismissed this as a BJP political maneuver rather than a legitimate archeological revelation. "This is a totally doctored report," says University of Delhi history professor D.N. Jha. "They've created this temple out of nothing." (ASI archeologists declined to comment...