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...collected signatures from his second-grade classmates on a Sierra Club petition to oust Interior Secretary James Watt. "I thought it had something to do with electricity," he jokes. But by the time he reached high school, he had become a vegetarian, formed an antivivisection study group, bought a truck to recycle the school's trash and, as a senior, founded the Sierra Student Coalition. At Brown he nurtured it into a nationwide corps of 30,000 activists. He was elected to the Sierra Club's 15-member board of directors in 1994, and last spring his colleagues voted...
...government set out to prove the following: that McVeigh harbored a deep hatred of the Federal Government, that he had spent months acquiring materials for the bomb and planning the attack, that he was the one who rented the Ryder truck used in the bombing, and that traces of explosives were found on his clothes, knife and earplugs when he was arrested. The case was not airtight--no one testified to seeing McVeigh make the bomb or seeing him at the crime scene--but the government made a very powerful presentation. To counter it, Jones had three strategies: raise...
...witnesses than he might have called in a hit-and-run case, and even among that small number, there was one whose testimony went terribly awry. Daina Bradley said while she looked out the window of the Murrah building on the morning of the blast, she saw a Ryder truck pull up and a man resembling the notorious John Doe No. 2 get out and run away. This is what she had said repeatedly for two years. Suddenly, though, Bradley, who lost a leg in the explosion, sank her face in her hands and said, "I need to talk...
...profitable so far. It is one measure of how deregulation has helped both the consumer and the supplier that Bell charges 2[cents] or so less a mile for hauling than when he entered the business in the '80s. "Deregulation has taken $50 billion out of the cost of trucking services from 1979 to 1997," says Donohue. "As a result, we are spending 15% less to move the nation's goods by truck...
...percent chunk of Comcast , the country's sixth largest cable operator. That gives him Comcast's stake in @Home Network , an online service that uses cable modems to provide rapid access to the Internet. TIME Business editor Bill Saporito?s view? ?Now Bill's got himself a delivery truck. Cable is such a capital-intensive industry because of the equipment. So for Comcast, which has a lot of debt, money is always welcome. It's not really a big deal yet. Gates has so much cash, something like $6 billion, lying around, he's got to do something with...