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...cost of pirated long distance is measured in the billions. Getting caught means jail time and a nasty fine. "Philes" on bulletin boards describe everything from breaking into phone switches to hooking up electronic video games to the phone line in order to destroy phone company computers trying to trace the hacker...
Other G-7 members, and even some Russians, fear Western aid will largely be wasted, disappearing without a trace into the chaotic, inflationary maw the economy has become -- if not into foreign bank accounts in a vast capital flight reaching between $10 billion and $30 billion a year. The Russian economy "is like a large and deep pool of mud," says a senior British diplomat. "You can toss in anything you like, and it just sinks to the bottom...
...Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly everywhere he practiced. Paula remembers marveling at his high spirits as he set off with a limp -- the trace of his childhood polio -- last Wednesday at about 9:10. He drove to the Pensacola Women's Medical Services in Cordova Square, a suburban shopping center tending toward dress stores, doctors' offices, delis and weight-loss clinics...
...scattered not only on the ramp but also at the bottom of the crater. Turning over the piece of metal, though, investigator Hanlin noticed a blackened but decipherable sequence of five numbers. They were part of the vehicle identification number stamped on various parts of vehicles to help police trace one that is stolen or wrecked in an accident. Experienced agents know that the identification numbers are actually codes that indicate the make, model and year...
Koresh dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Raised in the mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church, he found comfort as a young man in the teachings of an obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage...