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...terminals--probably at the security checkpoints. The screening devices that currently check your bag and the beeping gateways you walk through are best at finding suspicious metal objects only. Soft explosives, such as plastique, can slip right through. In an age of suicide bombers, that's a fatal shortcoming. But as early as this November, L-3 Communications, a New York City manufacturer of screening devices, expects to demonstrate a machine that uses "millimeter microwave" technology, similar to what the military already uses to "see through" walls, to examine passengers for known explosives anywhere on their bodies. Even soft explosives...
RELEASED. The accident report on a fatal crash in which, officials say, the Cadillac driven by WILLIAM JANKLOW, 63, famously fast-driving Republican Congressman from South Dakota, struck and killed motorcyclist Randolph Scott, 55, at a rural intersection in Trent, S.D. The report concludes that Janklow, the former four-term Governor, had been speeding...
...stamp out Hamas; Yasser Arafat remained effectively in charge, undermining the efforts of Abbas so as to ensure his own continued relevance; Ariel Sharon didn?t take seriously the need for Israel to bolster Abbas and made only token gestures toward the "roadmap," and so on. But the fatal flaw in the "roadmap" lies not with the actors, but in the script itself. A look at how we go here, and what it will take to get out of this mess...
...problem," laments Stéphane Mantion, an official with the French Red Cross. "These thousands of elderly victims didn't die from a heat wave as such, but from the isolation and insufficient assistance they lived with day in and out, and which almost any crisis situation could render fatal." It is true that advocates are seizing an opportunity, at long last, to publicize the plight of France's elderly. But it is also true that this problem deserves a response that lasts longer than the summer heat. Other European countries are also struggling to get a fix on their...
...allergies, this new genetically modified food becomes a disguised killer. One study tested natural soybeans that had been genetically altered by implanting a gene from Brazil nuts to increase their sulphur content. These soybeans, which had caused no allergic reaction previous to being genetically modified, now caused potentially fatal allergic reactions in those people with nut allergies. Since the GM soybeans are not labeled—they are not differentiated from natural soybeans at all—there is no way that people with nut allergies can even think of avoiding them. This danger was so great, that upon publication...