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During one Monday-evening binge, Hagan, 23, and his "home boys" decided to have some sport with a rival gang. Flushed with bravado, five of them piled into a blue Buick and sped toward enemy turf. There they spotted four teenagers, two of them girls, standing at a corner in...
-- Mechanics servicing another Airbus spotted a fuel leak in a pylon connected < to an engine and recommended that it be repaired quickly because of the potential of fire. But a foreman, saying he had not seen the leak, overruled the employees, according to King, and the plane took off. Since...
The waters outside the Persian Gulf resembled a floating parking lot. Scores of empty supertankers, flying the flags of Panama, Japan, Pakistan and many other countries, lay at anchor last week in the Gulf of Oman, as did half a dozen U.S. warships. A menacing cluster of mines had brought...
Five other mines were quickly spotted, their spikes protruding ominously as they bobbed in the sea. If the mines looked rather primitive, there was good reason: most of them were based on a World War I design. According to Defense Department officials, some of the explosives were manufactured by the...
The release of the dolphins was the work of the Oceanic Research Communication Alliance, a ragtag team of dolphin lovers and scientists. Most previous attempts to release captive dolphins have been ad hoc or ill conceived. In 1977, for example, animal liberationists "freed" two dolphins from a tank in Hawaii...