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...Bank, and was detained several days for rock throwing during the intifadeh. Arrested at the Canadian border in January as he tried to enter the U.S. illegally, he was detained until Feb. 6, when he posted a $5,000 bond. Some reports said Abu Mezer's alleged bombmaking was sped by news of the Hamas attack in Jerusalem. On Saturday, though, Hamas released a statement denying involvement in the Brooklyn plot. It declared, "Our battlefield is Palestine...
Barely able to control his excitement, Marcel sped into town with counterintelligence corps officer Sheridan Cavitt, picked up Brazel and headed out to the ranch. After collecting the debris--which Brazel later reported weighed no more than 5 lbs.--they stowed it in the trunk of Marcel's Buick. On his way back to Roswell, Marcel stopped at his home to show off the booty. Marcel's son Jesse Jr., now 60 and a doctor in Helena, Mont., remembers being awakened by his father and shown tinfoil, plastic, "beams or struts" that seemed metallic, and some strange markings that...
DIED. TROY RUTTMAN, 67, brash hot rodder who sped to short-lived glory in 1952, becoming at 22 the youngest winner of the Indianapolis 500; of lung cancer; in Lake Havasu City, Ariz...
...intricacies of development grants and tax credits. But as with almost everything the Vice President does these days, it was hard to miss the bits of political groundwork being laid here and there at last week's White House Community Empowerment Conference in Detroit. In between sessions, Gore sped from one photo opportunity to the next with the city's hugely popular black mayor, Dennis Archer. They toured the new African-American history museum, inspected operations at a corrugated-box plant owned by a former Pistons star, and chatted with ex-gang members operating heavy machinery on an assembly line...
Even as she sped past her 100th year, Sister Mary projected the energy and enthusiasm of a much younger woman. With the aid of a magnifying glass, she kept abreast of national affairs by reading newspapers and magazines. With the aid of a globe, she prayed for the women and children of the world, one continent at a time. In fact, so savvy did Sister Mary seem, so tuned in to her surroundings, that University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon began to think of her as a kind of gold standard for successful aging...