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FINGERPRINTS Most prints, set down by oils and sweat on the surface of fingers and hands, are not easy to spot. But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them-powder, chemicals, lasers and lights. Or even plain old superglue. Prints that are invisible on things like duct tape will appear once subjected to fumes from the heated glue...
Your decorating philosophy: Cover my room in stuff that will scare me when I wake up in the middle of the night drunk and unsure of where I am. Also, use duct tape to make giant dollar signs on all the windows...
...Washington Post reports that government experts know that lots of lives might be saved in the next terrorist attack if people had certain basic information: how to seal a room with duct tape or avoid radiation from a dirty bomb. But they don't trust people with the information, the paper quotes an official as saying, because "we're not in the business of terrifying the public." So members of Congress have evacuation routes, but the general population does not, despite the fact that a year ago the premise that people panic in a crisis was put to the ultimate...
...story: Erica was held for one long night and day in the basement of an empty house, her hands and feet bound with duct tape. She chewed through the tape, kicked open a basement door and made her way to a window where she screamed until someone heard her and came to her rescue. The little girl was plucky, but also lucky. The motive for the kidnapping was not sexual but financial; her abductors asked for a $150,000 ransom, perhaps believing a false neighborhood rumor that Erica's family had received that sum as a life insurance payment after...
...money will likely go toward fixing a host of physical problems, such as repairing a leaky and unstable roof and replacing the sanctuary floor, which is currently patched by duct tape...