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...poke around inside--a time-consuming effort that can delay flights. But within the next year, InVision, a Newark, Calif., manufacturer of baggage-screening devices, plans to begin selling machines that marry existing baggage scanners with devices that use "X-ray diffraction" technology. When a bag is found to contain something suspicious, the specialized scanners can zoom in on the indicated area and analyze the suspect materials to determine their chemical composition, all with the suitcase closed...
...last week's case, control mechanisms--computers, circuit breakers and switches--failed to contain the problem quickly, causing rapid fluctuations at substations elsewhere in the grid, tripping more shutdown mechanisms...
...powers that be said they had enacted safeguards to ensure that such an epic loss wouldn't happen again. The experts assumed that if something went wrong, the culprit would be an act of nature, an equipment failure or a human error--any of which they could contain. But it is now obvious that a single failure can still ripple through the complex interconnections and delicate balance of supply and demand that govern the nation's electric supply--with disastrous results...
...when Ware left most of his connections behind and moved to Chicago. "During [my grandmother's] steady decline," Ware writes, "I was only able to draw stories of my increasingly littler mouse wandering, alone, through a large, unoccupied house - my grandmother's house." The sketchbooks from around this time contain jotted-down memories as well as a portrait of his sleeping grandmother. The "Quimby" strips turn into "Quimbies," with two Quimby bodies sharing a pair of legs. Over and over one half withers and dies. Other non-Quimby strips from the same period appear in the book and contain straight...
...tart, not sugary. Fizzy Lizzy is a line of natural beverages made using only fruit juices and seltzer. Steap Green Tea Sodas is the first brand to be certified organic. Steap's microbrewed drinks come in such traditional flavors as cola, root beer, orange and lemon dew, but contain no additives or refined sugars. --By Lisa McLaughlin