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...smuggling a bomb on board in pieces and assembling it in mid-flight. The particularly devious innovation of the London plotters was their alleged use of liquid explosives or explosive components, which are easily concealed in many of the items found in most travelers' hand luggage - perfume, hair gel, deodorant, medicines, drinks, toothpaste, lotions, and so on - and are extremely difficult to detect. Metal detectors will obviously miss them. While there have been some "puffer" explosive-detection machines placed in some U.S. airports, they are few and far between - and aren't made to detect liquid explosives in sealed containers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Liquid Explosives May Be Terror's Secret Weapon | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

That day Rusty Yates noticed a nervousness in the way Andrea moved around the kitchen, setting out cereal bowls and milk for the kids. Rusty asked her to get ointment for Paul's lip, which he'd hurt at the playground. Andrea hurriedly dabbed on the gel. John asked Rusty if he could finally have his long-awaited turn going to work with him at NASA and playing games at Space Center Houston. But Rusty had a space-shuttle design meeting that morning and was not in the mood to take John along. He told him to stay with Mommy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...will not be left behind by the men who moisturize, with their hairless backs and fancy gel soap. I will become pretty, too. Also, my editors told me it was this, or cover the next World Congress of Accounting in Dushanbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Salon | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

...under communist rule - memories that have grown more affectionate with time. Speciality shops and some websites offer east German board games, 15-packs of the infamously rough Cabinet cigarettes, Be Ready condoms, even cans of Trabi Duft - fumes from the iconic Trabant car - and the very brand of hair gel preferred by former east German leader Erich Honecker. Young Berliners still gather at "authentic" G.D.R. parties, where guests don the uniforms of state organizations, swill Little Red Riding Hood sparkling wine and dance to ballads like In the East, which sold 300,000 copies a few years ago. This phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...India, that the inspiration for Pangea struck. Back in the U.S., he started a business that has expanded to a 10,000-sq.-ft. factory and sales at Whole Foods Markets across the country. Onysko is passionate about the impact of grooming habits on the environment (the average shower gel takes 200 to 300 years to biodegrade once it's rinsed down the drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Who: The Eco-Guide | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

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