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And more lethal. may 1982. a pipe bomb mailed to the head of the computer department at vanderbilt university in nashville explodes when its opened by a secretary. she sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when engineering professor picks it up. he too suffers wounds. >> you can look at what they call victimology. and you try and determine

She sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when engineering professor picks it up. he too suffers severe burns and shrapnel wounds. >> usually in bombings you can look at victimology and you try and determine, perhaps, people or businesses or something that all of the victims had in common with the suspect or the person whos doing the bombings in this case. with unabomb, none of these peopl...

Opened by a secretary. she sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when engineering professor picks it up. he too suffers wounds. >> you can look at what they call victimology. and you try and determine perhaps people or businesses or something that all of the victims had in common with the suspect or the person whos doing the bombings in this case. with unabomb, none of these people, none o...

Vanderbilt university in nashville explodes when its opened by a secretary. she sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when engineering professor picks it up. he, too, suffers severe burns and wounds. >> you can look at what they call victimology. and you try and determine perhaps people or businesses or something that all of the victims had in common with the suspect or the person whos doi...

Could that have weighed into their minds as well, in terms deciding there could be some doubts here. >> from what i understood the judge didnt let that evidence go to the jury. i heard conflicting reports about that look, the jury, im sorry we have to respect it but i dont have to agree with it. it was flat wrong, from my perspective not right to second-guess the prosecution. i understood there was engineering professor on this jury. when i was a prosecutor i used to strike them all day long. en...

See, its just as relevant today as it was back then. some of them, like san franciscos golden gate, are national symbols. but a startling number of americas bridges have become a symbol for something else. neglect and now, danger. bridges are essential to our daily lives, but more than 150,000 of them, about a quarter of all the bridges in this country, have been rated as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. in plain english, theyre getting old. >> like anything else, there is a usef...

He needs to build a nuclear weapon. >> saddam and nukes, absolute certainty, aer isfying prospect based on the cia discovery that iraq is attempting to purchase 60,000 aluminum tubes. some analysts become convinced the tubes are to be used in century fusions to nation uranium for nuclear weapons. soon after the discovery the department of energy gets hold of the actual tubes and asks engineering professor an expert on gas century fuses to evaluate them.fuses to evaluate them. >> from the evaluat...

Hes german educated. an engineering professor inside syria. he defected about a year ago and the united states wants to support him. hes a moderate. hes the kind of contentious candidate, if you will. some washington terminology that u.s. officials are hoping they will latch on to if americans give him enough support. the thirry being if they give him money, what theyre giving him so far, jackets, night vision goggles and medical supplies, that the more he is, the more his stock is rising, the w...

An engineering professor inside syria. he defected about a year ago and the united states wants to support him. hes a moderate. hes the kind of contentious candidate, if you will. some washington terminology that u.s. officials are hoping they will latch on to if americans give him enough support. the thirry being if they give him money, what theyre giving him so far, jackets, night vision goggles and medical supplies, that the more he is, the more his stock is rising, the worse it will be for o...

Witness says bp is not to blame you will remember back in dumped millions of gallon of toxic crude in the gulf of mexico. it devastated fish and wildlife and cost many people its livelihoods. today a retired engineering professor from lsu testified that bp workers followed normal industry practices. he said they took extreme care to follow safety procedures blowout that goes against the government findings which lay squarely against bp. one government witness testified earlier the company did no...