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Marley was once shot and wounded for his political activity in Jamaica. Consequently, at this concert everyone was checked by a metal detector on entering the stadium. Fifty security men surrounded Marley as they escorted him to and from his post-performance press conference. When Marley is on stage, there is unity, but when he is offstage there is fear. When he starts playing, he is bigger than life, when he stops he is again vulnerable, and those around him seem to know this. There is a customary search before many rock concerts, but at Marley's the search...
...Giacconi recalled last week, the problem entailed getting enough X-ray particles to fall on a detector and create an image, like light (in the form of "photons") hitting film in a camera. Giacconi saw that by positioning mirrors at shallow angles to the incoming radiation, astronomers could collect X-rays over a large area and funnel them onto a small detector, allowing for photographs "a millionfold" more detailed than previously possible...
...disputed that former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White took a snub-nosed revolver along when he went to call on Mayor George Moscone last November. Or that White slipped into city hall through a window to avoid the metal detector at the main entrance. Or that he pumped nine bullets into Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, killing them both. The only question for the jury at White's trial for murder was whether the defendant really knew what he was doing. At week's end, the jury was still...
Oder said the fire broke out at the rear of the home, near the kitchen or television room. It failed to trigger a smoke detector and a fire alarm...
...crib alarm may aid those rescues. Tested since 1973 at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the device consists of an electrode belt strapped on a sleeping baby, and a nearby monitoring machine that blasts a 70-decibel alarm (about as loud as a smoke detector) if the baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if its heart slows. Of 270 apnea-prone babies enrolled in the program, three died when the device failed to rouse their parents. Since then, the alarm has been made louder, and 60% of the babies have had attacks with no fatalities; 160 have graduated...