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...PROJECTILES No one likes rubber bullets - not the people being fired at nor the people doing the firing. "It's very easy to put out an eye, to blind someone," says Glenn Shwaery, director of the Nonlethal Technology Innovation Center. "How do you redesign a projectile to avoid that?" The answer is, with softer, flatter bullets, beanbags and sponges that spread out the impact and hit like an open-handed slap from Andre the Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer...
...than affection; he must support the psychopath. There is deeper anguish for the senior Sullivan. It is not just that his wife and younger boy have been killed; it is that all the codes by which he has lived have been violated. These simple souls are driven by a blind and brutal fate; we know from the outset that they are as doomed as Oedipus...
Longmuir, 46, credits Card and some of her other male bosses with "being so gender blind that they had more confidence in my abilities than I did." She believes women "are more comfortable working in teams, and that is an advantage in such a complex business" as aviation. She helped United make the transition to an employee-owned corporation, oversaw its successful international expansion and coordinated the Washington angle of the bold yet ultimately unsuccessful merger attempt with US Airways...
...Urbis project and the newly created Cathedral Gardens beside it. Simpson, who worked with famed architect Norman Foster in London but returned to his home town because "it was possible to have more of an impact in a city the scale of Manchester," won the Urbis commission in a blind international competition. Already his No. 1 Deansgate, a 60-m-high residential tower, has penthouse flats that sell for more than $1.5 million - record prices for Manchester. The Piccadilly Gardens project cleaned up another eyesore, transforming a dismal, sunken, traffic-choked island into a pleasant park in the heart...
...high winds, heavy rain, flooding and landslides. Officials said the storm caused 569 landslides in central and northern Japan, while floods destroyed at least 16 buildings and 10 bridges. Flights were also disrupted MEANWHILE A Bum Seer? In further proof of the untapped potential of the human mind, a blind German psychic says that he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Ulf Buck, 39, from Meldorf, near Hamburg, said backsides have lines on them that can be read just like the lines on the palm of a hand...