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...country or to most of liberal America, where the gristle of labor unions or socially conservative minorities dominates. Unless “the real world” for a typical Harvard student will mean an eternally sheltered life in academia, the perennially-fuzzy international community or Long Island, I detect a deception...
...drivers or bodyguards probably, sit at a subsidiary table. They turn quiet and suspicious when a new couple, strangers, is seated across the room, then return to their powwow. On the ceiling above the men are two metal boxes with rubber knobs--devices believed to have been installed to detect electronic bugs. It's just another night at (as the menu inscription proclaims) "CasaBlanca: Where You're Treated Like Family...
...head of the university-based Olympic Analytical Laboratory, Catlin understands better than almost anybody that the sports-doping war is essentially a pharmacological arms race, with chemists in illegal labs tinkering with steroid formulations so that the drugs can perform their muscle-building jobs while sidestepping tests designed to detect them. The testers, for their part, strive to discover the existence of the new drugs and develop ways to screen for them, driving the bad guys to modify them further, and so on. "By definition," says Rob Manfred, a labor-relations executive with Major League Baseball, "the people trying...
...Greene is working on confirming string theory through telescoping observations of the microwave radiation left from the Big Bang. He believes strings that may have been stretched or smeared out by the expansion of the universe can be measured. Because particle accelerators aren’t powerful enough to detect strings on their own scale, these observations would serve to confirm the theory with practical technology...
...phony phones are known to have surfaced in the U.S. And aviation-security experts say screening equipment now in use can detect the cell guns and other "improvised explosive devices," such as fake calculators, cameras, laptops and PDAs. To speed your next security check, you may want to leave some of those gadgets behind, along with your tool kit. Says a senior U.S. law-enforcement official: "Even a screwdriver could conceal a shotgun shell in a hollowed-out handle...