Abstract

IN SEPARATE ATTACKS minutes apart in the early morning of Aug. 1, two University of California, Santa Cruz, biomedical science professors were victims of bombings at their homes, the apparent targets of animal-rights activists. In one incident, a bomb destroyed the car of a professor, whose identity has not been released, at the university’s faculty housing. In the other, a bomb destroyed the front of the off-campus house of David Feldheim, an assistant professor in the department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology who studies the roles of certain genes in the visual systems of mice. According to police, Feldheim, his wife, and their two small children were forced to leave their house out of a second-story window on a ladder. The attacks have prompted a full-scale investigation involving local and university police departments, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives. Investigators say the incendiary devices were more powerful than a ...

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