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Within the tight circles of terrorism experts, Thurman is a legend. In 1990 he solved what everyone thought was an almost perfect crime, figuring out who destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime...
...which combines computed tomography (CT scanning) and high-quality X-ray imaging to produce cross-sectional images of a bag's contents. The CTX 5000 is the only device available that is equipped to detect all varieties of bombs: military explosives that might be concealed behind a circuit board, like the bomb that brought Pan Am Flight 103 down; plastic-sheet explosives contained in suitcase linings; and commercial explosives that might be composed of dynamite and powders. The FAA has contributed $8 million to help develop the CTX 5000, but installing it at the 75 busiest airports in the country...
McGregor, who calls himself "slightly arrogant and desperately sincere," last year married French production designer Eve Mouvrakis (they had a daughter this February) and is happy as the darling of the Anglo film circuit. "I won't buy into the Hollywood thing," he insists. "I want to be in good movies." It should be fun watching the battle between a charismatic young actor and U.S. moguls in search of a star...
...with his philosophy of judicial restraint, Scalia boasts a resume bursting with brilliance (valedictorian at Georgetown, a Law Review editor at Harvard, esteemed law professor at the University of Chicago) and a reputation for gregariousness and charm. So in 1986 the Reagan Administration believed that the 50-year-old circuit court of appeals judge was the perfect candidate to lead a new conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone predicted...
DIED. ELBERT TUTTLE, 98, former chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose unflinching, pivotal civil rights rulings in the 1960s helped dismantle Southern segregation; in Atlanta. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom...