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...many Americans, these modern-day ogres offer a perverse thrill. "Serial killers are the werewolves of the modern age," declares Hart Fisher of Champaign, Illinois, who published the Dahmer comic. "By day they walk around unassuming, then boom! By night they turn into monsters. People want to know why." The most fascinated seem to be the most nonviolent people of all, "the kind who would find a spider in the bathroom and take it outside with a tissue," says crime writer Ann Rule, who turned her experience on a suicide- prevention hotline alongside fellow volunteer -- and serial killer -- Ted Bundy...
...boom times for those perched on the upper rungs of the economic ladder. Mexico's claim to First World status begins at its dramatic glass stock-market building towering over the capital's main artery, Paseo de la Reforma. Young brokers in horn-rimmed glasses and imported ties traded the market into a 48% gain last year, even as the national economy slid into recession. In the three months after NAFTA passed in the U.S. Congress last year, more than $7 billion in new money flowed into Mexico, most of it from...
...Ocean Boom Boxes: A project may deafen some whales...
That's a problem for some marine biologists and a lot of whale lovers. Both groups came to Washington last week to speak out against an experiment involving the boom boxes. The $35 million project, set up by San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is designed to find out whether the much / feared global warming is actually occurring. At regular intervals over a period of years, scientists will fire acoustic "shots" across the water and measure the time it takes them to span great stretches of the Pacific. Since sound moves faster in warm water than in cold, researchers...
...stake is a business that Disney says will create 19,000 jobs, generate $1.5 billion in state and county taxes over 30 years and create a billion- dollar building boom. Critics doubt all those figures. But Prince William County and the nearby town of Haymarket (pop. 483), while redolent with history, have been suffering from downturns in defense jobs and real estate prices...