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...targets in Ulster, Britain and beyond in an effort to sway public opinion. Backed by 2,000 supporters who furnish hideouts and surveillance, the Provisionals are using a wide variety of weapons -- automatic rifles, pistols, letter bombs and mortars, as well as the terrorist's special, the Czechoslovak-made plastic explosive Semtex...
Casually attired in khaki trousers and a gray polo shirt, math teacher Tony Dula scribbles an algebra problem on a sheet of clear plastic and, using an overhead projector, throws the image on the blackboard for his class of 10th- graders. "O.K.," he says, "you have two minutes." Heads bow and sneakered feet tap softly on the floor. Suddenly a student in the second row breaks the silence. "Oooooh! I found it!," she cries. "I feel good!" Another girl waves her hand wildly from the back of the room. "Mr. Dula! Mr. Dula...
...wonder how much the Globe Theater spent on town criers pushing Shakespeare, or how many cities were on Herodotus' Mediterranean tour? Even in the recent past, how much did book-stores pay for plastic Col. Sartorises to peddle Faulkner's The Unvanquished...
...Honolulu neighborhood is seedy, the building rundown and the second-story room bleak. When a drug user comes in, drops a dirty needle into a plastic bucket and receives a fresh sterile syringe and needle in exchange, no name is given, no questions are asked. This is the start of the nation's first state- approved program for providing addicts with clean needles in the hope of curtailing the spread of AIDS. Under the two-year pilot project, an addict can swap a used needle for a new one, supplied by the nonprofit Life Foundation, up to five times...
...language was imposed on the NEA as a result of its funding of two photo shows. One involved sexually graphic works by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, the other a depiction by Andres Serrano of a plastic crucifix dunked in the artist's urine. Although many people in the arts community expected the ruckus to be short-lived, a year later it shows no sign of abating. Some liberals question whether Endowment Chairman John Frohnmayer need enforce the new rules so confrontationally: the National Endowment for the Humanities is not requiring recipients to sign any new pledge. But the pressure...