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...charred piece of shirt, a shred of green plastic the size of a fingernail, the letters MEBO and a cryptic diary entry. Those were the clues that finally unlocked a three-year-old mystery: Who planted the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, just before Christmas in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 more on the ground? The answer writ small, according to indictments issued last week in Washington and Scotland, is two Libyan intelligence officials: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. They allegedly fabricated the bomb in Malta, packed...
...first step in the investigation that cracked the case was to reconstruct the plane and its parts from hundreds of thousands of fragments scattered across 845 sq. mi. of Scottish meadows, woods, bogs and lakes. Forensic experts eventually determined after examining fragments, including a tiny piece of tan plastic traceable to a particular model of Toshiba radio, that the bomb consisted of 10 oz. to 14 oz. of plastic explosive concealed inside the radio, which was in turn wrapped in clothing and packed inside a piece of brown Samsonite luggage...
...late 1989, a Scottish investigator going through a bag of burned clothing found a fingernail-size shred of green plastic embedded in a piece of shirt. The fragment was shipped to Washington, where Tom Thurman, an FBI bomb expert, obtained from the CIA a bomb that had been captured unexploded from Libyan- supported terrorists in the African nation of Togo. The bit of plastic from Lockerbie perfectly matched part of the timing device from the Togo explosive. The letters MEBO had been imprinted and scratched out on the Togo bomb but were still decipherable. So the timer evidently had been...
...dough. Force Marty Feldstein to help millionaires with their taxes. Force Seamus Heaney to edit pulp best-sellers. Force Jeff "I'm too busy saving the world to talk to undergraduates" Sachs to clean up a country that has some money, dammit. Force Med School profs to perform celebrity plastic surgery...
...entire culture, for that matter, is derivative. The cramped, dark Victorian houses (going for $2 million) are borrowed from the English, the ivory (mostly opaque plastic) figurines from the Chinese, and the vineyards from northern Italy. There's no homegrown movie business; in fact the town has missed the video age, focused instead on grainy foreign films, which seem to be unreeling in every theater. Although the smug intelligentsia of Stanford and Berkeley blanch at the mention of her name, the area's best-selling author is Danielle Steel. To be sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market...