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AIRPORTS Expect more big changes at the nation's air terminals--probably at the security checkpoints. The screening devices that currently check your bag and the beeping gateways you walk through are best at finding suspicious metal objects only. Soft explosives, such as plastique, can slip right through. In an age of suicide bombers, that's a fatal shortcoming. But as early as this November, L-3 Communications, a New York City manufacturer of screening devices, expects to demonstrate a machine that uses "millimeter microwave" technology, similar to what the military already uses to "see through" walls, to examine passengers...
Certainly the depredations of a bunch of rubber-soled, chalk-bag-toting rock rats are minor compared with forest clear-cutting or strip mining. But because climbers are drawn to some of the nation's most spectacular landscapes--the Tetons in Wyoming, the Sawtooths in Idaho, Joshua Tree National Park in California--their footprints are closely scrutinized, and a nationwide debate is under way between climbers and federal land-management agencies on what and where people should be permitted to climb...
...forgiven for wondering whether Bombay's deadliest terrorist attack in a decade had really happened. The freshly scrubbed pavements around the Gateway to India were heaving once again with beggars, tourists and balloon sellers. Uptown in Zaveri Bazaar, the gold and silver traders had taken it upon themselves to bag up all the stray limbs, hair, teeth and fingers, boarded up their broken windows and opened for business. Commuters packed trains as usual, and the stock market soared to a 29-month high. The newspapers all but ignored the 52 people killed and 175 injured when a pair of five...
...supplying a product that people buy because they need it--to a fashion business, which is based on shoppers' desire. "We're not flashy or trendy, but we still have to surprise people," he says. "People have to really be enchanted by what they see." Otherwise, he would just bag it. --By Kate Betts
...where it doesn't become just about that sale. You need to maintain the identity of the message and feelings and emotions of the designers. At the end of the day, the greater the image, the greater the character you associate with it. You see J. Lo's bag in Times Square or on the Avenue Montaigne, and if you have the same one, you feel special, part of the gang. That's when the image works." --By Camilla Morton