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...replace the token-operated turnstiles with automated gates. The new technology will feature “CharlieTickets”—magnetic-striped paper tickets, cast in the mold of New York City’s MetroCards—and “CharlieCards”, more durable plastic “smart cards” with integrated circuitry that are geared towards daily commuters. (Existing monthly and weekly passes will work...
...piece of NASCAR ingenuity already deployed in Iraq: the layers of clear plastic sheets on the front of race-car windshields, which crews can quickly tear off each time oil or grit obstructs the driver's view. Similar Mylar sheets are now used on Black Hawk helicopters, whose windshields in the past had to be routinely replaced after getting pitted by desert sand. A set of layered sheets, which costs $1,100, is a lot cheaper than the $15,000 windshields. Could an invasion of flashy logos be far behind...
...agents packed the bodies in ice, sealed them in black plastic bags marked Xl, X-2 and X3, and rushed them to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, 80 miles away. There a team of pathologists, using dental and fingerprint charts, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt what everybody had already suspected. These were the bodies of missing Civil Rights Work ers Michael Schwerner, 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, both white, and James Chancy, 21, a Negro...
...summit was an international magnet attracting a constellation of groups competing for attention and airtime: peace demonstrators, the families of refuseniks, Jewish activists, and summit perennials like Waluliso, 73, a fixture at last year's Geneva meeting, who wanders around the streets in his trademark bed-sheet toga, with plastic laurels around his head, shrieking for the need for world peace...
Hindawi was not the only one on trial at the Old Bailey. According to Amlot, Hindawi told British police that Syrian military-intelligence officers had helped plan the attack, supplying him with a Syrian passport and $12,000 as well as the Czech-made plastic explosives found in Murphy's carry-on satchel. "There is convincing evidence," Amlot told the twelve jurors, "he was acting in concert with agents of the Syrian government." Hindawi has pleaded not guilty...