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...Electric employee Douglas Pollander was underground responding to an explosion when a second blast occurred an hour later. A resulting fire killed Pollander and injured three of his co-workers and a police officer, according to Com Electric spokesperson Peter Diamond. Officials on the scene said Pollander's body remained trapped for over an hour...
...World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that the package had exposed wires but was not a bomb. Prosecutors hope to prove Yousef and suspected cohort Eyad Ismoil were responsible for driving the bomb-laden van into the trade center's underground garage on the day of the attack, which authorities say was intended to shock the U.S. into ending its support for Israel. "We know he directed it all," Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA chief of counterterrorism, said of Yousef. What they don't know is who was paying his expenses...
Rather than going under the knife to upgrade his diminishing physical allure, Carrillo, according to speculation by drug enforcers, may have been seeking to change his identity for a life underground. Carrillo was in no immediate danger of being arrested--a planned U.S.-Mexican task force aimed at capturing him never materialized, largely because of ongoing corruption in the ranks of Mexican drug busters. But Carrillo had gained a level of celebrity in the past few years that made him a target for those on both sides...
...When adolescent narratives of desire are driven underground," Wolf vaguely explains in the grad-school-speak that characterizes her writing, "harm is done to the psyche." Wolf's solution is that women should be more vocal about their sexual histories and yearnings. However, she does not thoughtfully address what the sociological or cultural merit of such venting would be in a climate already teeming with daytime talk shows, hyped authors of best-selling incest memoirs, and Alanis Morissette...
...surprised that no reporter reminded Bacon of a scene in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick's black comedy about nuclear war. Huddled in the Pentagon's secret underground war room, where a horrifying decision about whether to use the bomb has to be made, the President and his top advisers are startled into silence by the ringing of a telephone in front of the general played by George C. Scott. Picking up the receiver, Scott listens for a moment as the hushed assembly looks on, and then whispers, "I thought...