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Critics of the plan, including some airport directors and aviation-security experts, say it takes the undercover FAMs off planes, where they are most needed, and puts them in terminals already patrolled by local cops (both uniformed and undercover) and often by customs officers and Immigration and Naturalization agents. In...
DIED. MAURICE PIALAT, 77, acclaimed French film director; of kidney failure; in Paris. In dramas such as Police, Loulou and The Mouth Agape, the auteur painted uncompromising, unforgettable portraits of desolation. His characters--cops, priests, kids on the run, deathbed parents--were sacred monsters in strangled agony.
Some drivers in South Wales thought they had found a clever if illegal way to dodge the taxes that push British diesel prices north of $4.50 a gal.: by filling up with vegetable oil at half the cost or, better yet, with used cooking oil from fish-and-chip shops...
When China was under the ultra-rigid control of Chairman Mao?with every adult reporting to a work unit or a nosy neighborhood committee?people could barely get away with bicycle theft. That overly restrained but safe China is now long gone. Big Brother isn't watching so carefully anymore...
China's police claim to solve 85% of the country's regular murder cases. But they're way behind when it comes to serial killings, a seemingly universal form of evil that flourishes most in societies under stress. The inexperience of Chinese investigators in this field was vividly exposed by...