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Such a gadget would obviously improve on the current "is-it-an-Uzi-or-is-it-car-keys" standard of airport metal detectors. But Boyd anticipates a use beyond the doorway: mobile units costing less than $10,000 each that a cop could point out a car window and know who on a sidewalk is armed, before a gun is ever drawn. That, says social scientist James Q. Wilson, could "change the way we as a nation deal with guns...
Violence in this movie is of the throat-slitting genre, clean and unmessy as if a surgeon designed it. Suspense is used in a crude but effective way-killer lurking behind doorway, killer lurking in closet, killer lurking behind shower curtain. That's it-the violence and suspense are neither gory nor great...
...opened fire with a high-powered rifle in the university town of Chapel Hill, N.C., about 2 p.m. today, ripping off as many as three dozen shots that killed two people and wounded a bystander who tackled him, as well as a female police officer. After hiding in a doorway for nearly an hour, he was shot by police, then tackled by a student who is a Marine, as he tried to reload. One of the dead apparently was a student who was trying to get away on a bicycle as the shooter made his way down a crowded street...
...witnesses, who are all Crimson editors, told police they had noticed a man walking out of the store's doorway several seconds after the crash...
...Fidel and the older generation, who are proud of the superior education and health system handed down to their children, to leave is to break faith with the revolution. "Tell my son I'm fine," says Teodomira Rodriguez, standing in the doorway of her small pensioner's apartment in the Vedado section of Havana. The 62-year-old widow said goodbye to her two sons last month: Rafael, 34, died at sea; Pedro, 32, survived but was hospitalized in Miami with dehydration and blisters after six days afloat. "They left because of the economic problems," she says...