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...lusty waves of the Dead Sea, one could just picture a pirate ride, in which scurvy Hassidic blackbeards unroll replicas of the ancient scrolls in search of buried treasure. For thrills and chills, the Wailing Wall would make an amazing house of horror, complete with slide-projection wraiths and plastic mummies. And for a big finale, one could construct and demolish the city of Jericho twice daily with high pitched sound and invisible lasers...
...caller named stores in Houston and Orlando, where he said he placed capsules laced with cyanide or rat poison. Investigators initially found capsules spiked with sugar and cornstarch. The adulteration was easily detected. The man had crudely cut into the plastic blisters encasing the capsules. Said SmithKline's James Russo: "We're not talking about someone with exquisite skill for hiding what he is doing...
...Brandeis students had moved their shantytown from the lawn in front of the student center to a plaza in front of the school's administration building Sunday, and then built a 40-foot-long wood and plastic wall around it late Monday...
...biggest surprise came from New Zealand, which entered two innovative boats built not of wood or aluminum like traditional twelves but of fiber glass, prompting an instant nickname: plastic fantastics. One of the pair, the New Zealand II, performed remarkably, coming almost directly from the boat shed to finish second in the series. An entry sponsored by the French photo processing company Kis also broke new ground of a sort, winning special permission from rule-makers to hoist a spinnaker emblazoned with its lead entry's racy name: French Kiss. She came in fifth...
...just another ruse. Last week in a Virginia county jail, where he was being held pending a March 17 sentencing, Larry Chin committed suicide. Police say Chin appeared fine when guards brought breakfast to his cell. But later in the morning, they found the inmate lying unconscious with a plastic bag wrapped around his head. Efforts to revive him failed...