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Each scene had to portray a different location, using a set limited to a painted floor, a projection screen and a metal table...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: "Baltimore Waltz" Receives Award At Kennedy Center Competition | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...ladies). Bookshelves in a corner are filled with an array of titles, including A Room of One's Own, The Jerusalem Bible, Son of Dune, Dante's Inferno, and a Magazine called "Shark Week." A sign on the scary-looking detector at the door reads, "This is not a metal detector or anything scary like that. It's a bookguard system that will beep if people run off with our books. We got it so that we can greatly expand our library and at some point in the near future sell books.--Colin...

Author: By Lindsey M. Turrentine, | Title: Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...press release that solicited donations for Griffin's family. "While we think that Gunn's death is unfortunate, the fact is that a number of mothers would have been put at risk today and over a dozen babies would have died at his hands," wrote Treshman, a former metal salesman who now devotes all his time to organizing clinic protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RHETORIC OF TERROR | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Such a gadget would obviously improve on the current "is-it-an-Uzi-or-is-it-car-keys" standard of airport metal detectors. But Boyd anticipates a use beyond the doorway: mobile units costing less than $10,000 each that a cop could point out a car window and know who on a sidewalk is armed, before a gun is ever drawn. That, says social scientist James Q. Wilson, could "change the way we as a nation deal with guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gun Control: PEEKABOO: THE NEW DETECTOR | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...guard at an airport in North Carolina last week. The guard grabbed Wilder by the neck and pushed him against the wall after the ex-Governor tried to read his name tag. Wilder wanted his name because of the rough treatment he got when his suspenders set off the metal detector. Other guards pulled their colleague away. Wilder then left for Virginia; the guard left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1995 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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