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...woman lay down in a Boston intersection and faked death as her cohort zipped her up inside a plastic body bag. One protester called out, "How many bags left...
...North St., Where they blocked a key offramp to the Central Artery. MDC police, clad in riot gear, closed in on the group quickly. Dozens of officers, who had been waiting at the nearby entrance to the Callahan Tunnel, lifted about 40 protesters from the street, handcuffed them with plastic strips and transferred them to waiting police wagons...
Rebuilding the breast after mastectomy has become increasingly popular in recent years: more than 34,000 U.S. women chose some form of reconstruction in 1988, up 71% from 1981, according to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. Younger patients are particularly drawn to the procedure, though Hugo has reconstructed breasts for women of all ages and types, including...
Afraid the Americans might not help him, Awad frantically insisted that he was telling the truth. He drew a diagram of the suitcase, showing where thin sheets of plastic explosive were sewn into the lining and how the batteries and detonator were embedded in a sheet of plastic along the bottom edge of the suitcase. The diplomat reluctantly called the Swiss police again and talked them into sending the bomb squad back to Awad's hotel. Several tense hours ) passed. Finally, a call came through: the Swiss had found the bomb...
...Bern, it became clear that he held the key to a major terrorist mystery. Just three weeks earlier, a bomb had exploded on a Pan Am jet flying from Tokyo to Hawaii; it killed a Japanese teenager and injured 15 other passengers. That bomb too was made of plastic explosive. It had easily passed through security checks designed to detect metal weapons and stop hijackings rather than bombings...