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...Leave your mobile phones, bags and wallets in the lockers provided. Interviews with prisoners are forbidden except with my permission. You will be body searched." He smiles. "And if anything goes wrong, I hope you can run fast." After the promised pat-down and a trip through a metal detector under the scrutiny of granite-jawed guards clutching M-16s and big wooden sticks, the reporters are ushered through two sets of tall steel gates, past drab cellblocks and neat hedges. On bleachers beside the pitch, more than 1,000 inmates await the opening ceremony under flags, bunting and banners...
...Johnston Gate, a lone Middlesex County sheriff’s deputy used a handheld metal detector to check hundreds of people seeking entrance to the Yard. Even elderly women in wheelchairs were not exempt from a once-over with his beeping wand...
...three years during Bible study at St. Edward Church. The charge made news: the vastly popular Blackwell was the first African American to serve as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore, tending a thriving, mostly black congregation at St. Edward. The boy passed two police lie-detector tests, but lacking a witness or physical evidence, the state dropped the case. And the church backed its priest, at least in public. Privately, according to Margaret Burns, a spokeswoman for the Maryland state's attorney, in 1993 "the archdiocese acknowledged that there was reason to believe that sexual abuse had occurred...
...apparently been saved from the Taliban's predations centuries later. Jean-FranCois Jarrige, director of the Guimet Museum of Asiatic Art in Paris, was in Bamiyan recently, walking gingerly along a path cleared in the minefield above the supposed resting place of the reclining Buddha. "We have mine detectors, but so far no Buddha detector has been invented yet," he mused. "We'll just have to dig for it once we've completely studied the site...
...fair amount of work on nanoscale. It's the science of [the] very small: one atom up to about 400 atoms. Imagine if you can take 3 million little nanopills in the morning with orange juice, and they run through your body eating each cancer cell. Or imagine a detector that senses a potential nuclear weapon by just picking out three or four atoms in the air. You'd have much greater safety against terrorists...