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...front or a cloud-festooned hallway that leads from the rear parking lot. Classic Diesel design aspects, such as the worn-in, vintage atmosphere of other locations, have been discarded in favor of unique lighting techniques and product displays. The stark cement floor gives way to a decorative metal-studded wood-marquetry design near the entrance. In addition, men's and women's clothing and accessories will be dedicated to the brand's most fashion-forward looks. But jeans devotees needn't worry: Diesel's signature denim bar will have a large presence, even stocking the élite Diesel Denim...
...Infante's other passion was flying; he loved piloting his own plane. When he survived a crash in 1949, he got a metal plate in his head and a perverse sense of invincibility. "You see that I was right?" he boasted to friends. "Of course I felt something. But death can do nothing against me." He had two more crashes, and that was one too many. He died, at 39, on April 15, 1957. Hearing the news, Mexicans by the hundreds of thousands clogged the streets and reeled in grief. A newspaper headline blared: "His Death Was Like a Bomb...
...SmartCheck machine is designed to scan a passenger’s body for guns and explosives and aims to increase the efficiency of secondary searches, which are conducted only after passengers have passed through the metal detector. The scanner provides those passengers selected for such searches with a less intrusive alternative to the pat-down or strip search. The machine is still in its testing stages, but is scheduled to eventually make its way into JFK and Los Angeles International airports...
...government believes that use of the scanner will greatly improve airline safety. A full body X-ray scan can reveal carefully concealed plastic weapons or liquid explosives that metal detectors miss. A 30-second scan in place of a pat-down or strip search would also greatly expedite travelers’ painfully slow passage through security...
...name of national security in the past, but we would be foolish to assume that this is true for all governmental policies. In this particular case, the SmartCheck scanner, aside from being another minor inconvenience, certainly does not infringe upon our civil liberties any more than the ordinary metal detector...