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...looking for a leader—that’s very important now,” D’Alessandro said, adding that there will be “tough decisions in the redesign...
PROJECTILES No one likes rubber bullets--not the people being fired at nor the people doing the firing. "It's very easy to put out an eye, to blind someone," says Glenn Shwaery, director of the Nonlethal Technology Innovation Center. "How do you redesign a projectile to avoid that?" The answer is, with softer, flatter bullets, beanbags and sponges that spread out the impact and hit like an open-handed slap from Andre the Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer...
...PROJECTILES No one likes rubber bullets - not the people being fired at nor the people doing the firing. "It's very easy to put out an eye, to blind someone," says Glenn Shwaery, director of the Nonlethal Technology Innovation Center. "How do you redesign a projectile to avoid that?" The answer is, with softer, flatter bullets, beanbags and sponges that spread out the impact and hit like an open-handed slap from Andre the Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer...
...shoot-out closed parts of the L.A. airport for more than four hours, leaving more than 6,000 passengers temporarily stranded. It came just three days after Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn unveiled a long-awaited airport-redesign plan containing $9.6 billion in changes proposed partly as terrorism safeguards. But the focus of security in the new design was to keep terrorists and explosives off planes. Passengers would check in at an off-site center far from their gates, then take a light railway to the terminal while their baggage was inspected in a new underground screening and handling...
...planning to build on what we have: organize it around a challenging newsmaker interview, then have a roundtable. George Will will stay, but we'll bring in some fresh voices to contend with him. We'll probably redesign the set in a way that's comfortable for me. Get a chair that really fits me, nothing radical...