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...oldest alternative high school for troubled kids in Los Angeles County, has been a model around the country. It serves 75 students, mostly Latinos from nearby East L.A. Their infractions range from truancy to firearm possession, drug selling and sexual assault. There are no window bars, security guards, metal detectors or pat-downs at the front door--just a friendly receptionist and a big, brightly colored bulletin board welcoming all visitors. "If we installed security devices, we'd be telling our kids that we don't trust them," says Cathleen Corella, the principal, who proudly reports that there have been...
...bombs.) On the surface, most of the nation's 442 airports look largely the same as they did before the Dec. 31 deadline, and much of the bomb screening will be done as it was previously - out of the sight of passengers. The security checkpoints - where passengers walk through metal detectors and put their carry-ons into X-ray machines - won't change...
Packard underwent surgery the following Tuesday, when doctors inserted a metal plate and six screws in his hand...
...Here she was, almost six months to the day since she first warned chairman Kenneth Lay of "an elaborate accounting hoax." Her boss had long ago confiscated her hard drive, and she had been demoted 33 floors from her mahogany executive suite to a "skanky office" with a rickety metal desk and a pile of make-work projects. The atmosphere had grown so ominous that she had called office security for advice on self-defense. But still, Watkins simply could not fathom that this company, the one she had tried to save from itself, had considered taking away...
...photo is excruciating. In Feng Feng's Shin Brace, an exhibit at the First Guangzhou Triennial, a photograph of a human leg?scaled up to fill an entire wall?is shown wrapped in a wicked metal apparatus that seems part medical, part torture device. Steel barbs pierce traumatized skin in a scarring kiss. I look at the photo until I can't look anymore, which isn't long. Opposite Shin Brace is Feng Mengbo's Ah Q , an installation featuring two computers running the ultraviolent video game Quake III on a pair of wide screens. A young Chinese...