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...Sandia mounted its first major overhaul at the high school in Belen, N.M. Using a combination of video cameras, drug-testing kits, metal detectors, mobile Breathalyzers, ID badges and antigraffiti sealants, Sandia engineered a 90% drop in vandalism and theft, a 98% decrease in campus intruders, 95% fewer car break-ins and 75% fewer fights...
...Gear, a maker of aircraft parts in Everett, Wash. Then he started drinking. One afternoon, in the depths of that bender, he tried to check himself into Fairfax Psychiatric Hospital. Babbling about having stabbed himself a few days before, he also boasted that he had a gun in his car. When an administrator took his keys and warned him that she would have to call the police, Furrow thrust a black-handled switchblade at her. It took a local cop three warnings at gunpoint before Furrow dropped the knife...
Here in the U.S., we've got software gods, Web commerce wizards and computer-chip kings. But when it comes to wireless technology, the Finns rule. Just look at what they can do with a cellular phone: buy a Coke from a vending machine. Run a car wash. Zap a digital picture to a friend. On this side of the Atlantic, we're just glad when our calls aren't cut off midsentence...
...become housebound and depressed. Last year, when Persis Thompkins, 80, of West Palm Beach, Fla., had a fender bender, she was terrified that she might lose her license. "I would have had to move into an independent-living facility," she said. Some communities offer low-cost vans and private-car services. But city buses and taxis are often all there is. Losing a license is like a death sentence to most people. That's why the adult children of elderly drivers will usually not intervene--even when Mom or Dad is a road menace. Members of one Detroit family tried...
...been a good couple of days for paparazzi. First Prince Charles finally obliged photogs this weekend with the money shot they had been seeking for years ?- a rare picture of the prince on vacation with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Now the photographers who have been under investigation in the car crash that killed Princess Diana may be off the hook. According to the Associated Press, France's state prosecutor has recommended that the courts not pursue manslaughter charges against the nine photographers and motorcycle driver who were following her Mercedes through the Paris twilight. Judge Hervé Stephan is expected...