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...wreckage was strewn over a 200-yd. swath and consisted largely of rubber strips, tinfoil, wood sticks, Scotch tape, other tape with a floral design and what rancher W.W. ("Mac") Brazel described as a rather tough paper. On the day Brazel chanced upon the strange debris, June 14, 1947, he was making his rounds at the J.B. Foster sheep ranch, 85 miles northwest of Roswell. As he later recalled, he was in a hurry and didn't pay much attention to the scattered assortment...
...defense's final sally came on Wednesday, when Jones played tapes of Michael Fortier, McVeigh's Army buddy, talking about the case with friends. The tapes were made by the fbi when Fortier was a suspect. Under a plea-bargain deal, he testified for the prosecution that he had helped McVeigh plan the bombing. "I can tell a fable," he said to his father when he was contemplating the deal. "I can tell stories all day long." On another tape he joked about how much money he could make selling his tale to newspapers and television shows...
...most cautious of the red-tape revolutions has been in the pharmaceutical industry--and with good reason. To be sure, speeding up the approval process at the Food and Drug Administration--where getting a new drug to market has often felt like swimming through Jell-O--is both a worthy and a popular cause. The appetite for free-market trial and error is limited, however, in a business where error has sometimes meant disfigurement or death. "There's a great push to try to cut down the FDA," says Fred Dorey of the Bay Area Bioscience Center in Oakland, Calif...
...been the "house hippie" at Warner Bros. "Don was a brother as well as a partner," says Bruckheimer. "He was a small-town boy who grew up in the studio system; I was the city boy who was always the outsider." Their first film together, the Jazzercise tape called Flashdance, earned $95 million at the U.S. box office in 1983, back when that was real money...
Finding a new species of bird or bug is a little like finding a new use for duct tape--nice but not earthshaking. Finding a new species of human ancestor, on the other hand, is always a big deal. That's why Spanish scientists spent three years studying fossils they discovered at Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain. They wanted to be sure of what they...