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As early as 8 April, one was seen parked outside the Lady Godiva strip club in Tulsa, at the same time as three men, later identified as McVeigh, Strassmeir and Brescia, were inside. A showgirl, captured on a dressing-room security video, told her fellow strippers that one of the three had boasted to her: “On [...]

And unlike the painting one can say that it is true and will always be so. Chemistry also provides clear examples of how wrong Sir Karl Popper ­ and here we are in agreement ­ was in relation to falsification being the key basis of science. In chemistry one can prove the existence of compounds [...]

I was working in the dark in a yard awash with blood while one doctor tried to treat hundreds of people with terrible injuries. Many died of shock in front of us.”It’s very difficult here for someone like me. Some people refused first aid because I was a stranger, while others insisted that if I [...]

I suspect that most of our profits will still come from pencils and rubbers for schoolkids”.At the Lowry museum in Salford a spend of £2-£5 per child is not unusual, so he may be right. “But if you could sell the occasional beautiful high-quality live-steam models of a classic engine, for example, for £800, and [...]

Park by the simple church of St Lawrence, cross the old stone bridge, turn left and follow the lane upstream by Kirkland Beck. The Tarmac soon ceases, and a good farm track curves northwards on to the fellside. It is a corpse road, once used to carry bodies over the Pennines for burial in the [...]

“The author is a modern figure,” Barthes wrote, “a product of our society insofar as… it discovered the prestige of the individual.”Asked recently why he so regularly disrobed in public, the bald techno-pop opportunist Moby replied that it was “a bizarre combination of self-loathing and lack of shame” Bizarre but true. Are today’s media narcissists [...]

On the great highway of opera roles, Oberto is a Commendatore en route to becoming a Rigoletto. But dramatically the piece is an uphill struggle, shifting from scene to scene with a mechanical awkwardness that would defeat the most experienced director. John Tomlinson’s solution is simply to let his characters stand and sing – for [...]

Place them in an airtight container, cool, cover and reserve.Making the candied pineapple: Peel the baby pineapple, and cut out and discard the hard central core Chop the remaining flesh into 14in/5mm cubes. Bring the water and sugar to the boil together in a suitable pan, and when the sugar has dissolved, pour it over [...]

Cable & Wireless was another to feel the telephone pinch, falling 14p to 498.5p.Abbey National ended 22.5p lower at 935p as the rumoured bid failed to materialise, producing the usual I-told-you-so chorus in certain quarters. Alliance & Leicester recovered 11p to 613p and National Westminster Bank improved 12p to 810.5p.Safeway rose 23.5p to 354.5p as [...]