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...especially if it's the last one--a phenomenon not uncommon around this time of year. And we're not just talking about dining halls here, though the oatmeal and cream of wheat are absolutely delectable. Various alternatives exist that surpass whatever is offered on the plastic trays, depending on what you order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 5/19/1995 | See Source »

...Friday -- Children's Day in Japan -- employees at a Tokyo subway station extinguished two burning plastic bags of chemicals left in a men's room before their fumes could combine to form enough hydrogen cyanide to kill 10,000 people in seconds. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Meanwhile, Japanese police, continuing their investigation of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, arrested the group's top lawyer, Yoshinobu Aoyama, on charges of slander. As in other arrests, police have so far avoided charging that the cult was involved in the March 20 gassing on the Tokyo subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: APRIL 30-MAY 6 | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...come back in a while, you'll clean out the storage shed." When authorities searched a locker believed to have been rented by McVeigh in September 1994, it was empty. Nichols' home, however, yielded a 60-mm antitank rocket, 33 firearms and nonelectric detonators, four 55-gal. plastic drums, literature about Waco, antitax and antigovernment pamphlets and three empty 50-lb. bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the material used in Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...miles west of downtown. After the organization's boss, Larry Jones, went on local TV to ask for volunteers and donations for the victims and rescue workers, hundreds of cars began filing through the parking lot of the company's warehouse, the drivers asking what was needed and offering plastic bags and boxes full of everything from infant formula to flashlight batteries, food and paper goods. A sporting- goods store in Stillwater shipped every single one of its kneepads to the rescuers scouring the wreckage. Nearby Tinker Air Force Base sent a truckload of helmet lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: CITY THE BLOOD OF INNOCENTS | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...intervention in every aspect of your life," Izydorek explains. The Washington Post, however, reported a more grisly version of Nichols' activities: neighbor Dan Stomber claimed the brothers, along with McVeigh, were amateur bombmakers who would call him over to watch them set off bombs made with "household chemicals and plastic jugs, mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND HIS RIGHT-WING ASSOCIATES: WHO ARE THEY? | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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