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...first step in the investigation that cracked the case was to reconstruct the plane and its parts from hundreds of thousands of fragments scattered across 845 sq. mi. of Scottish meadows, woods, bogs and lakes. Forensic experts eventually determined after examining fragments, including a tiny piece of tan plastic traceable to a particular model of Toshiba radio, that the bomb consisted of 10 oz. to 14 oz. of plastic explosive concealed inside the radio, which was in turn wrapped in clothing and packed inside a piece of brown Samsonite luggage...
...developers study the ancient Chinese concept of feng shui to ensure harmonious building design and smooth cosmic energy flow. It is not the Beach Boys or the Eagles or the Grateful Dead who provide the voice of California today; it is Los Lobos, a Mexican-American rock band. Amy Tan novels and Boyz N the Hood are the artifacts of the new United States of California. And when it comes to the latest groups of immigrants -- as with the settlers in Steinbeck country -- few of the stereotypes apply: most of the state's Hispanics and Asians, not notably self- indulgent...
...AMERICANS FLOCK to glassy stores all over the nation to buy white onepocket T-shirts and buttonfly jeans, as the owners of Bennigan's and T.G.I. Friday's sit at their fern-ensconced tables to count their millions, as another Virginia family drives away with another unassembled tan sofa from Ikea, our senses of place and identity vanish into the democratic emptiness of Gapified America...
...days started getting shorter. And most of us were clinging to the last traces of summer, spending every waking moment working on the already fading tan. But not the Harvard women's volleyball team...
...days started getting shorter. And most of us were clinging to the last traces of summer, spending every waking moment working on the already fading tan. But not the Harvard women's volleyball team...