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...about to be charged with complicity in a 1982 car bombing that killed a pregnant woman and wounded 63 others, there was no masking the tired image Carlos cut as he stood in white pants, his mauve pullover stretched taut by mid-life paunch, his short hair a muddy gray. At 44, he looked like a washed- up playboy...
Plutonium is generally more available than enriched uranium but harder to build a bomb with. Smuggling enough stolen plutonium is reasonably easy: the gray metal commonly comes in 2-lb. bars or gravel-like pellets. While it is highly toxic to breathe in -- one grain can cause lung cancer -- its radioactive alpha rays do not penetrate very far, so thick lead shields are not necessary. But airport metal detectors, which would register any sizable quantity, are to be avoided...
Brown bears. Bighorn sheep. Elk. But also gray-banded king snakes. Ducks. Spiders. Butterflies. Of all God's creatures, great and small, there are apparently few that enterprising Americans are unwilling to slaughter or kidnap in the country's national parks. Poaching in the parks has been a problem since they were founded in the 19th century, but never like this, says Grosz, echoing colleagues across the U.S. "I've been in the business for 30 years, and the problem is definitely at its worst," he says. "They're taking everything." Wildlife-enforcement officials estimate that there...
...hills and across the wooden outfield fence at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, obscuring the sign that proudly proclaims the Berkshire Medical Center the OFFICIAL HOSPITAL OF THE PITTSFIELD METS. The grounds crew, so to speak, sprang into action. There was nothing big league about it. The soot-gray tarp, patched in several places, did not cooperate with the motley squad of Mets employees in baggy shorts who gamely attempted to pin it to the ground like frenzied wrestlers...
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