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...liquid explosives or explosive components, which are easily concealed in many of the items found in most travelers' hand luggage - perfume, hair gel, deodorant, medicines, drinks, toothpaste, lotions, and so on - and are extremely difficult to detect. Metal detectors will obviously miss them. While there have been some "puffer" explosive-detection machines placed in some U.S. airports, they are few and far between - and aren't made to detect liquid explosives in sealed containers...
...five hours of police work per nonarrest, which they will devote to street crime and drug dealers. In France and Germany, local police, prosecutors and judges are allowed considerable discretion to be tolerant. In Belgium the government proposes to make arrests only if marijuana use is "problematic" to the puffer or to others--so don't smoke in front of minors. Officials obviously expect few problems, since people will also be permitted to grow their own grass...
Lewinsky was a small fish in a big pond, but not just any small fish: a puffer fish. Whether she was demanding entry at the Northwest Gate or presuming to advise the President on political issues, she knew how to blow herself up to several times her natural size. In one blast of unsolicited advice giving, she counseled Clinton to settle with Paula Jones by using the First Lady's bruised feelings as an excuse. Lewinsky even laid out a media strategy: "Mrs. Clinton should do something publicly, maybe on a TV show or something, and talk about how difficult...
...Louganis. The big question hanging in the air last week was, What took him so long? And right below that were some others: Should he have told the International Olympic Committee in '88? Didn't he at least have a responsibility to tell the team physician, Dr. James Puffer, who stitched him up right after the accident? Why hadn't he come forward before and made himself a standard-bearer for the cause...
...procedure, the men in Drood are far better dressed than the women. Costume Designer Tinadetta Lee has outfitted the male characters in several splendid variations of Victorian dress--special note should be made of Jasper's splendid frock coat and purple waistcoat. Other than the gorgeous tatters of Princess Puffer, however, the women are mostly stuffed into badly tailored, frumpy dresses...