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AIRPORTS Expect more big changes at the nation's air terminals--probably at the security checkpoints. The screening devices that currently check your bag and the beeping gateways you walk through are best at finding suspicious metal objects only. Soft explosives, such as plastique, can slip right through. In an age of suicide bombers, that's a fatal shortcoming. But as early as this November, L-3 Communications, a New York City manufacturer of screening devices, expects to demonstrate a machine that uses "millimeter microwave" technology, similar to what the military already uses to "see through" walls, to examine passengers...
...open it. When the fish spilled out onto the deck, he found the net had also caught something else - a large, yellow-brown lump of solidified mustard gas from World War II. "It was a huge piece, weighing about 15 kg, and with no traces of the metal casing," says Michael Jepsen, skipper of the Soraya. Aware of the danger and following established procedure, Jepsen alerted the military authorities on Bornholm, who boarded the trawler, inspected the poison and decided it should be tipped back into the sea in a designated dumping area. Branick, though...
...concrete came flying toward him. Inside the building, Mohammed al-Hakim, a driver with the International Monetary Fund, was standing in a second-floor office. "Everything seemed to be collapsing around me," al-Hakim says. "There was smoke everywhere. I saw a man lying with a bar of metal through his cheek...
November brings yet another Grohl collaboration, a self-produced album called Probot, on which he plays all the instruments while his favorite heavy-metal singers get the glory. "It's not a platinum seller; it's not going to change the world," he says. "It's just my tribute to all those guys I worshipped when I was 16." Meanwhile, the biggest of all drum cameos is still out there. "I have John Bonham tattoos all over my arms," he says of the drummer, who died in 1980. "I learned to be a drummer by listening to the Zeppelin catalog...
...find ice cream displayed in a gelato-style showcase imported from Italy. After waiting in a line that stretched out the door, Stephanie Crittenden, 24, ordered cream-flavored ice cream, then added brownies and fudge. The custom concoction was mixed together in front of her by employees wielding metal spades on a polished granite surface refrigerated from underneath--the "cold stone." Employees periodically broke into song, especially when they received...