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FRANCE Death on His Mind When Richard Durn used a gun to threaten a psychiatrist in 1998, no action was taken. Even though the school monitor had a history of mental illness, his membership in a shooting club was enough to qualify him to own handguns. At the end of a municipal council meeting in the Paris suburb of Nanterre last week, Durn pulled out two 9-mm pistols and calmly shot dead eight members of the council and wounded 19 other people. As he was wrestled to the ground, he shouted "Kill me! Kill me!" The following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 3/31/2002 | See Source »

Maybe it was all the surveillance equipment. Normally, if you want to meet someone at a bar, you have to walk over and deliver your best pickup line. But at Remote, you scope out people using video monitors hooked up to a network of cameras scattered around the room. Then you can push a button next to your monitor to let the object of your desire know that you're watching. Still interested? Pick up the phone and start chatting. If you are like me--and like lots of people I saw at Remote the two times I visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Drinks And Videotape | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PHRma), sent e-mails to company reps in Washington warning that Wood's appointment was imminent. Attached were copies of medical journal articles by Wood in which he called for curbs on drug ads aimed at consumers and for more money to monitor the safety of drugs on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacancy: Food And Drug Czar | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...work should keep him busy. Surveillance cameras are proliferating everywhere. Police monitor high-crime areas. Business owners keep tabs on their workers. According to the China Daily, mainland China's English-language newspaper, spy cameras are a hit with consumers in Guangdong province, where spouses are tracking their mates and store owners watch out for shoplifters. After stumbling upon a Tokyo-based pornographic website showing photos of female passengers on Taipei subway trains, a Taipei city councilor recently fueled public paranoia by announcing that the transit system had been infiltrated by Japanese criminals carrying cameras disguised as briefcases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Always on the Lookout | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

Refugees must continue taking their medicine during the entire six months, even while they return to their homes. To monitor their patients, Goldfeld and the ARC hope to create a computerized tracking system to make sure patients continue to take their medicine even if they are on the move...

Author: By M. HELENE Van wagenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Med School Researcher Leads Afghanistan Relief | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

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