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Meanwhile, the Brady Law will make things harder for criminals, though maybe not hard enough. For instance, late on a Friday night last month, a store surveillance camera picked up eight men in ski masks outside the entrance of Ed's Gun & Tackle in Marietta, Georgia. One of them took a hard swing at the display window with a sledgehammer. Nothing happened. (Sometimes that shatterproof glass really works.) The group scattered, then returned in a car, which they drove straight through the glass doors. What followed was a frenzied minute of supermarket sweep as the intruders grabbed 60 semiautomatic handguns...
...difference,'' promises Pomerleau. The researchers say they are only a couple of years from achieving a preliminary goal, perfecting ALVINN as an anticollision device to jog sleepy drivers before they run off the road. When a car drifts dangerously close to the border of its lane, a road-watching camera would do something like ring an alarm bell or shake the driver's seat. ``Fully automated driving may be a ways off,'' says Pomerleau, ``but in the near term we're doing work to save lives.'' For now, however, if you see ALVINN coming at you on the road...
Current projects besides the film include candid-camera calls for MTV and the production of an upcoming all-calls video. With all this glitz, the Jerky Boys haven't made an old-style business call in about eight months, honey pants...
...Michelle Pfeiffer, 1995 Woman of the Year, now steps out of the limousine to the thunder clap of one thousand camera shutters. Sporting a black beret and black sunglasses to set off her shiny blonde locks, the goddess is hoisted into the back seat by a jealous drag queen. She looks stunned. One reporter yells, "Michelle--give us a wave!" and she obliges, as another thunder clap of shutters captures the divine moment for posterity. Her devotees, the clowns of this star-gazing circus, go crazy...
...dancing 35." Herrera changed her technique but not her dream of dancing just about everything-not only Mr. B. but the classics, Antony Tudor, Twyla Tharp as well. So she joined A.B.T. instead of City Ballet. Onstage she can seem like the illusion of a trick camera, some hypothetical device that can do slo-mo and speed-up at once. She has a high jump and executes complicated allegro moves with clarity and miraculously delicate musicianship. But what she communicates most is the sheer joy of being out there...