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...best, then, forensics is an uncertain business, the onion-peeling exercise of investigating a crime using everything from shoe-leather detective work to the forensic accounting applied to Enron-type cases. Crimes of passion or violence, however, require a whole different set of tools, and it's here that much of the new science is found...
FOOTPRINTS Shoe marks in anything from dust and dirt to blood or mud can be collected. To pick up a shoeprint in dust, experts use a sheet of electrified mylar that picks up dust like a big piece of Scotch tape. Soil tracked by an assailant could reveal where he has been or where he lives. Prints may also reveal the size, style and make of a shoe...
PLEADED GUILTY. RICHARD REID, 29, British citizen and terror suspect known as the shoe bomber; to attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight using explosives contained in his hiking shoes; at a hearing in Boston. He faces 60 years to life in prison. "Basically, I got on the plane with the bomb," he told the court, smirking and chuckling at times. "I am a member of al-Qaeda and I pledged to Osama bin Laden. I am an enemy of your country...
...them - the Madison, the Twist, the Continental, the Fly, the Roach - and in his film reproduced a dozen of them, with an archaeologist's fidelity. For the Broadway version Waters is listed as "consultant"; he claims he was much too bossy ever to collaborate. He also knew that the shoe would have "new" songs; the pastiche conceit embraced not only the ransacking of tacky 50s-60s modes of decor, coiffure and couture but the rephrasing of less-than-classic Brill Building song styles...
...knew about Torricelli's woes. Now at the 19th century mansion, the beleaguered Senator raised withdrawal as a way to keep his seat-and the Senate-in Democratic hands. It's impossible to know Torricelli's motives. Was it for the party's sake or did he think another shoe would drop? Whatever the reasons, no decision was made as Torricelli left that night for his farm in nearby Hunterdon county...