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...problem with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, however, is that in order to analyze evidence, you have to destroy it--which means investigators have to get the test right the first time, or the perp might walk. A new laser ablation spectrometer under development could solve that problem by etching off only a tiny slice of a sample with a needlelike light beam and cooking it in a plasma furnace equipped with a mass spectrometer especially sensitive to trace elements. Similarly, researchers at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have shown that a synchrotron radiation device can bounce a beam...
...does Barry every now and then destroy a bathroom or a glass patio door? Dunno. Won't even speculate. Probably just one of those inexplicably surreal accidents that writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson likes. Remember the frog shower in Magnolia...
Beyond those schemes, U.S. war planners are focused on attacking the delivery systems--missiles, planes and drones--that Iraq might use to deploy chemical and biological weapons. The U.S. Air Force remains profoundly embarrassed by its inability in the 1991 war to destroy a single Scud launcher, despite 2,400 missions aimed at just that. Better satellites, more deadly Apache helicopter gunships and improved--and armed--drones should enable the U.S. to do better should there be a next time...
...decision went against Airbus, according to several testimonies. The board signed off on the 34-plane order at its Nov. 17, 1997 meeting, even without seeing the paperwork. One month later, directors finally received a business plan justifying the higher number. Gobert says that document has the words "Please destroy earlier versions" written on the front cover. The financing was also highly problematic. Minutes of the board meeting say "it was proposed" that Swissair would help pay for the planes; a separate financing company that would acquire the planes and lease them to Sabena was supposed...
...estate. A palace policeman once saw Burrell pull up his station wagon at 3:30 a.m. and load it with a large wooden box and two evening dresses wrapped in plastic. When challenged by the bobby, Burrell said he was removing items Diana's family wanted him to destroy, and was doing so at this hour to be discreet. Boyce said the family will rebut this. He reminded the jury that photo albums of the young princes or Diana's dresses could buy the person who presented them to Sotheby's a comfortable retirement. Burrell, whose final service to Diana...