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...that checked luggage, airport devices that inspect it now use X rays and C.T. scans to signal the possible presence of explosives. If they turn up something suspicious, a human handler has to open the suitcase and poke around inside--a time-consuming effort that can delay flights. But within the next year, InVision, a Newark, Calif., manufacturer of baggage-screening devices, plans to begin selling machines that marry existing baggage scanners with devices that use "X-ray diffraction" technology. When a bag is found to contain something suspicious, the specialized scanners can zoom in on the indicated area...
...test his mettle in America. So instead NBA scouts and agents are focusing on the crop of younger players, ranging from Tang Zhengdong, 19, a bruising 7-footer with an uncharacteristic taste for rough play, to prodigy Chen Jianghua, 14, a 6-ft. 1-in. ball handler whose gravity-defying 360º dunks look like something out of a Jet Li movie...
Their cover is blown: JENNIFER GARNER is dating MICHAEL VARTAN, who plays her CIA handler on the TV show Alias. Garner was married to Scott Foley, who starred in Felicity, until the two split up in April. But don't even think it: Garner and Vartan have been dating only a few weeks. It's a case of life imitating prime-time drama, since Garner's character is in love with Vartan's. Unless it's all a ruse to cover up a secret romance with her Daredevil co-star Ben Affleck--well, probably not. But that would have been...
Despite the announcement at last week's trial that the verdict would be handed down after closing statements today, the prosecution and defense also had the opportunity to re-examine a customs agent and bag handler who had testified at trial. A customs specialist, Alexei Petrovich Ionov, was also brought in to give his evaluation of Okhotin's behavior at the airport...
Vladimir Vasilievich Dudakov, the bag handler called in to witness the questioning of Okhotin, also said Okhotin had been uncooperative with customs—though when pressed by the judge, he said he could not remember specifically how Okhotin had been belligerent...