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...stealthy and ruthless as they are-this mix of Baathists, terrorists, Islamists and hired guns-they spend more time and effort in hiding and getting away than in making attacks. Frederick D. Hunt Jr. Rochester...
...Washington. More than a dozen other flights to or from Paris, London, Los Angeles, Washington, Riyadh and Mexico City were scrapped in a week and a half, starting on Christmas Eve. It was a strange period of aviation lottery that may become more commonplace as authorities continue to hunt, with imperfect information, for would-be al-Qaeda hijackers. All told, at least 27 flights were canceled, detained, rerouted or tailed by fighter jets--ready, as a last resort, to shoot down the planes should they deviate from their courses. We may never know whether an attack was prevented. What...
...scientists--electrical-engineering professor William Hunt and chemistry doctoral candidate Desmond Stubbs--fused microelectronics and biotechnology to create a device that not only detects very small amounts of a substance but can also differentiate between one chemical and another. "I had seen some of the existing electronic noses and knew they weren't chemically specific, so I knew I had to figure out a way to get biotechnology onto a chip," says Hunt...
Though police dogs have played an important role in the $19 billion war on drugs, their noses simply aren't as keen as Hunt and Stubbs' creation, which can sniff out a few trillionths of a gram of an illegal substance. The two scientists say their device--which is still a prototype but will probably cost considerably less than the $80,000 worth of crime-lab equipment now being used for such tasks--makes economic sense. And because the artificial nose, according to Stubbs, "determines on the spot whether cocaine or other substances are present," it could also eliminate...
...sensor with an antibody that was similar in structure to cocaine. As a result, if cocaine were present in a room, it would attach to the antibody molecules and set off an electrical signal. Initial tests in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation labs have been a success. Still, Hunt says the portable nose won't be ready for use in airports for a few years. In the meantime, the pair may want to hire a public relations firm to deal with the potential issue of unemployed dogs. --By Paige Bowers/Atlanta