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...concealed bomb sensors. "We're not building fortresses," says Ron Steinert, who oversees aviation projects for Gensler architects, "but we have to think about protection along with passenger comfort." Designers working on terminals in New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle and Los Angeles are considering such ideas as blast-resistant panels, shatterproof glass and interior aesthetics that visually differentiate public areas from secure sections. A proposed $12 billion expansion to LAX is on hold until architects can incorporate a luggage-inspection facility several blocks from the terminals. Other gateways are drafting facilities with ductile window frames that flex during explosions...
...FRANCE Blast from the Past When Didier Schuller fled into exile in 1995, he was under investigation for his role in a kickback scheme allegedly set up by President Jacques Chirac's RPR party. So Schuller's sudden return last week must have been a shock for Chirac, who is set to run for re-election. Schuller says he wants to "set the record straight," but the RPR suspects a Socialist plot. Either way, it was bad timing for Chirac; polls show him losing his lead over likely Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin, who has played up his "Mr. Clean" image...
...gunfire is deafening as Ryan Peake, 20, and two of his high school friends blast away at a cadre of terrorists. It's 6:30 p.m. in the PC caf?, part of a nondescript strip mall in the Orange County, Calif. suburb of Garden Grove, and there are about twenty customers inside playing the online game Counterstrike against kids in the other twenty cybercafes within a four-mile radius. In the game, users play either terrorists or counterterrorists locked in a violent faceoff. Although Peake dislikes the kids on the terrorist side who give themselves handles like Osama's Mama...
Trailing 2-1 in the second period, the Crimson stormed back to tie the game on senior captain Peter Capouch’s blast from the slot, which found its way through traffic and past Cann—last week’s ECAC Goaltender of the Week—at 1:33 of the frame...
Crimson wingers Rob Fried and Tom Cavanagh were both strong on the puck as they worked it back to the right point, where McCarthy gathered it and fired a blast through a nice screen by Fried that beat Cann low to his stick side just 2:02 into the game...