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LONDON—Two Saturdays ago, I crossed Abbey Road. The camera caught me mid-stride, as it did the Fab Four more than 30 years ago in the famous photograph that would grace the cover of the last album the Beatles ever recorded...
...least 46 protestors and 31 police officers have been hurt in the conflict, in addition to the young man, whose cause of death was not yet clear. Some witnesses said he was shot in the head, others claimed he was beaten to death by police. One photograph shows his legs beneath a police truck...
Scientists rarely discuss where that "speck smaller than a proton" came from, who put it there and what started its expansion some 15 billion years ago. The reason they don't tackle that ultimate question is that seeking the answer always leads to something they can't photograph, measure or make up equations for--God. DAVE REISER Palatine...
...VISION Today's preferred technology for looking through things is the same one Wilhelm Roentgen used to photograph the bones in his wife's hand in 1895, although the newest X-ray devices are considerably more powerful. Last September, for example, the U.S. Customs Service placed an order worth more than $25 million for 15 truck-based X-ray inspection systems made by American Science and Engineering, Inc., in Billerica, Mass. Using a technique in which images are made from X rays scattered back from objects (rather than passing through them), AS&E's systems can spot--with extraordinary clarity...
...head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6); of lung cancer; in London. The post had its James Bondish arcana (C's top-secret memos, for example, were supposedly written in green ink, which only C could use). But Spedding became a rather public spy, even though his photograph was never published until his death. The infamous Soviet mole Kim Philby revealed his name in 1971 during a Moscow-London spy spat. Spedding later reorganized the post-cold war service, focusing on his specialty, the Middle East. In 1984 he reputedly helped thwart an Abu Nidal attack on Queen Elizabeth...