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...crime-related deaths. This year Griptone, a Japanese travel-goods company, has opened a store in Osaka, Japan, for the safety-conscious Japanese tourist. Merchandise includes an attache case that gives thieves within 170 ft. a 40-volt electric shock, and safety vests ranging from ice-pick proof to bulletproof. Americans visiting Osaka from New York City might want to pick up a few Griptone products for when they get home...
...every now and then, flipping them on their backs to unravel yards of gossamer thread. The ambitious goal of all this effort: to unravel the secrets of spider silk, a family of materials stronger than steel, stretchier than nylon and tougher than Kevlar, the stuff used to make bulletproof vests...
...reportedly worth $10 million, he built his fortune as a young partner in the local contracting firm of Iglesias y Torres, then bought out the company and Anglicized the name to Church & Tower. He lives behind high walls in a Spanish-style mansion in south Miami and drives a bulletproof blue Mercedes. He is sentimental enough to have planted six royal palms in his backyard, one for each of Cuba's provinces. "I am more Cuban than American," he says. "I prefer eating plantains to American food...
...Project Freedom pays for the initial move, while local congregations agree to assume housing costs and arrange for jobs and education for as long as two years. "It's a stopgap measure," concedes executive director James Copple, who tours the city's rougher neighborhoods on weekend nights wearing a bulletproof vest. "If we have to relocate them, then in some ways we've already lost the battle...
...Rogue Los Angeles bluecoat Pete Davis (Ray Liotta) has some very weird ideas about protecting and serving Michael and Karen Carr (Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe). He comes to investigate a burglary at their house and stays to hit on her and harass him, after Michael sees through his bulletproof vest of politesse to the psychopath beneath. Liotta's chilly boyishness is hypnotic. Jonathan Kaplan's film is a little distant and a lot manipulative, as it reminds some of us paranoiacs that you don't have to be Rodney King to get more police attention than you really want...