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...consultants to look into bag-screening technology, and they chose a device made by a German manufacturer, Heimann. The TSA's machine tests for density but can't tell for sure whether the suspicious mass is explosives or chocolate, whereas the Heimann machine uses a more sophisticated X-ray method that can make such distinctions by computer. The Heimann machine is capable of screening 1,000 bags an hour, compared with just 200 an hour for the EDS machine and, says Baumgartner, would cost $86 million, compared with $130 million for the TSA's system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airport Security: Welcome to America's Best-Run Airport* | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...consultants to look into bag-screening technology, and they chose a device made by a German manufacturer, Heimann. The TSA's machine tests for density but can't tell for sure whether the suspicious mass is explosives or chocolate, whereas the Heimann machine uses a more sophisticated X-ray method that can make such distinctions by computer. The Heimann machine is capable of screening 1,000 bags an hour, compared with just 200 an hour for the EDS machine and, says Baumgartner, would cost $86 million, compared with $130 million for the TSA's system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation's Best Run Airport — and Why It's Still Not Good Enough | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

Summer School Tests Creative Method of Combating Grade Inflation...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Hard To Digest | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...then do we determine who is greatest? Method 2: The Gap. Situate each among his contemporaries. Who towers? Who is, like the U.S. today, a hyperpower with no second in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatness Gap | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

When Europeans complain about American cultural imperialism, what they usually have in mind is McDonald's taking business from the local boulangerie or U.S. moguls vying to wire the Continent for cable TV. But an American entertainment executive named Sam Davis has a subtler method of infiltration: he introduced Germany to the made-for-TV movie nine years ago and liked the place so much, he decided to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Chick Flicks | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

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