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WEBS AND NETS Spider-Man has competition. a firm called Foster-Miller, based in Waltham, Mass., has created the WebShot, a 10-ft.-wide Kevlar net. Packed in a cartridge and fired from a special shotgun, the WebShot can entangle targets as far away as 30 feet. Bigger nets can work on bigger targets. The Portable Vehicle Arresting Barrier, developed for the Pentagon by General Dynamics in Falls Church, Va., is a tough, elastic web that springs up from the ground in an instant to block a road. It can stop a 7,500-lb. pickup truck traveling 45 m.p.h...
...that manufactures pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical supplies. Disturbingly, he has a history of molestation charges: the daughter of his ex-girlfriend Beth Veglahn, along with another girl, accused him two years ago. The Veglahn girl lived with her father in the same condominium complex as Samantha, Veglahn's foster brother Lewis Davis told TIME. A jury acquitted Avila on all those counts in 2001, however, and Avila's mother says the case was an attempt by the ex-girlfriend to seek revenge for the failed relationship. Says Avila's mother Adelina: "He bears a certain resemblance" to the sketch...
...million in research money poured into its sprawling laboratories in Boston and a dizzying number of scientific breakthroughs continue to pour out. Now, University President Lawrence H. Summers wants to capitalize on those breakthroughs by calling in the capitalists and using Harvard’s scientific might to foster a new Silicon Valley for the life sciences. The revolution in microchips will be followed by one in genes and proteins, Summers argues, and Harvard needs to be at the forefront...
Bush called the tragedy "heartbreaking." The public's immediate wrath will probably focus on Bush's handpicked DCF chief, Kathleen Kearney. Critics have called for her head since April, saying she focuses too much on whisking kids into foster care and too little on repairing her agency's bureaucracy. Kearney insists that cases like Jones' "are not widespread...
...apocalyptic preaching of certain Christians is beginning to jeopardize a sensible foreign policy and foster unhealthy public panic. Religious views that tolerate violence and see destruction as hastening a meeting with God are extremely harmful. How far are such beliefs from those of suicide bombers, who kill innocent citizens in cafes and streets around the world? The distance, I think, is frighteningly small. APRIL R. THOMPSON Williamsburg...