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...that has not stopped the phone calls. Late last week the 54-year-old lawyer received a threat from someone the fbi believes is a known violent offender. "I have to take this seriously," Jones says. "The man said if I represented McVeigh, he was going to send a Ryder truck to my house and blow...
...although large for his age and husky, has light hair and no tattoo. John Doe's elusiveness has led some investigators to question his existence -- or at the very least the likeness currently being circulated. But authorities say the sketches are based on descriptions from witnesses at the Ryder-truck outlet in Junction City, Kansas, as well as from a woman at an undisclosed location...
...exposed to a contaminated blood sample, but the ultimate origin of Ebola remains a mystery. Scientists suspect that it has probably circulated in wild animals such as rodents for years, and only makes the jump into humans when the two populations come into contact. Observes Yale epidemiologist Dr. Robert Ryder: "These viruses basically say to man, 'You stick to your territory and I'll stick to mine.' But then man begins to encroach on the habitat of the viruses...
People go to the movies to fall in love, and not just with their dates. Wholesome sex appeal has kept Hollywood purring for 80 years. But today's prime actresses-Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, even Winona Ryder-are a formidable bunch, serioso artists who don't fit into a fellow's dream of easy chatter and backseat romance; they are more likely to hand you a petition. As for Sharon Stone, she's gorgeous, but thanks all the same, we would just as soon survive the good-night kiss...
True, Timothy McVeigh didn't hold a steady job, but he never seemed to want for money. In the days leading to the Oklahoma bombing, he paid cash for his motel room in Junction City, Kansas; he paid cash for the Ryder truck that allegedly carried some 5,000 lbs. of explosives to Oklahoma; and he forked over $250 (and his old Pontiac) for the Mercury he was driving when he was arrested. In Kingman, Arizona, the owner of the trailer park where the suspect lived in 1993 says he saw McVeigh flashing around "a big wad of money." Investigators...