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...three years in the Middle East, though, Hull saw nothing to compare with what he sees in U.S. cities. "When Palestinians or Israelis pull the trigger, at least they can articulate a cause they're fighting for. In Chicago or L.A., you've got 13-year-olds shooting people because they're bored." That's the kind of insight reporters like Jon bring to our pages when they become dissatisfied with simple answers...
...work for your homies. Here's the gun. There's the car. Get up and go, boy.' " In other words, welcome to the big time, Jimmy. Time to prove your stuff by shooting some rivals. Try not to hit someone's mama or baby, but mainly just pull the trigger bang bang bang -- and don't lose the damned...
...helipad tower would answer, "Bluegrass Tower." Before they could be admitted past the facility's 6-ft.-thick steel "blast gate," officials would have to show their special ID cards. If they arrived after a nuclear attack, they would be checked for radiation. Anyone who was radioactive would trigger a series of sensors, setting off a bell and a flashing light -- yellow or red, depending on the level of radioactivity. Those who had been most exposed were to be led to decontamination showers and washed with medicated soap. Their clothes would be incinerated, and they would be issued military coveralls...
...accountant's son who excelled in Greek and Latin in college during the German occupation, Montagnier is no stranger to adversity. He faced it again in 1990, when he supported a controversial theory that mycoplasma, a bacterium-like organism, is the trigger that turns a slow-growing population of AIDS viruses into mass killers. According to Montagnier, the explosion of sexual activity in the U.S. during the 1970s fostered the spread of a hardy, drug-resistant strain of mycoplasma. HIV, meanwhile, lay dormant in Africa. The AIDS epidemic began, Montagnier speculates, when the two microbes got together, perhaps in Haiti...
...fired, three of the planes turned back only after American radar had locked on to them -- a preliminary step to shooting. In Sarajevo a Canadian member of the United Nations peacekeeping force exchanged fire with a Serbian sniper, who was killed. Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon nothing may be left for intervention to save anyway. Mladen Klemencic, a military analyst in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, speculates that the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire...