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...waterproof and shockproof device has already been used by hazmat teams in New York and Washington and in military operations, and Ahura has plans to develop an even smaller, cell-phone-size implement. How does the technology work? Explosive liquids tend to have strong chemical signatures, which the device can read, even through bottles or other containers. The technique employed, called Raman spectroscopy, uses a laser for optical analysis. After shining a light on a substance, liquid or solid, the device analyzes the optical characteristics of the scattered light that reflects back. "You can read the substance...
...music." In practice, that means retaining just enough Chinese flavor to create an exotic sheen without alienating listeners unaccustomed to the moan of the erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) or the plink of the pipa. The finished product is about as Chinese as Enya is Celtic-but their culture-shockproof tunes travel well across borders and in elevators. The group's version of the jazz classic Take Five is nowadays piped over the p.a. systems of Tokyo convenience stores...
...certain language that is a symptom of the violence of the culture," Finley insists. "If I talk about a woman being raped, I have to use the language of the perpetrators." While her wild orations about menstruation and excrement have been known to rattle even shockproof veterans of New York City's downtown art scene, they have also won her a raft of admiring reviews. When she performed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in January, the Star Tribune used words like heartfelt and moving to describe We Keep Our Victims Ready, a verse piece about the consequences...
...quip by New York's then Governor, Nelson Rockefeller, to the effect that the Democratic presidential slate ought to pair Ted Kennedy with Thomas Eagleton, one implicated in the Chappaquiddick drowning and the other known to have undergone electroshock therapy. Rockefeller dubbed the duo "waterproof and shockproof...
...Robert E. Chambers Jr., 19, and Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, strolled into New York City's Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Something happened between them. Chambers allegedly strangled Levin, then remained nearby as morning rose and the body was discovered and removed. Even shockproof New York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder trial, relentless public glare...