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...Maceda has blown the matter out of proportion, that she has a history of problems on the job, and a few have told her that they suspect she may have been involved in some of the book mutilations. Maceda is unfazed by these accusations, offering to take a lie-detector test and pointing out that most of the complaints about her conduct came after she began making waves. "Most of us are here because we love the books and have a lot of respect for them," she says. But faced with the prospect of losing her job as a detective...
...enter her office, and she had to brace the folders on her arms against a cabinet. She came out a few moments later and locked her office." ButWilliams has denied removing anything from Foster's office that night,and the White House says she has passed two lie detector tests...
...contributions to the quark project was to build 70 tons worth of detector to measure the behavior of particles resulting from quark disintegrations...
...Euclid (gentlemen) or minarets, masks and medieval maidens (ladies). Bookshelves in a corner are filled with an array of titles, including A Room of One's Own, The Jerusalem Bible, Son of Dune, Dante's Inferno, and a Magazine called "Shark Week." A sign on the scary-looking detector at the door reads, "This is not a metal detector or anything scary like that. It's a bookguard system that will beep if people run off with our books. We got it so that we can greatly expand our library and at some point in the near future sell books...
...airport in North Carolina last week. The guard grabbed Wilder by the neck and pushed him against the wall after the ex-Governor tried to read his name tag. Wilder wanted his name because of the rough treatment he got when his suspenders set off the metal detector. Other guards pulled their colleague away. Wilder then left for Virginia; the guard left...