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...join her at 10 Downing Street for tea. For its part, Pan Am is offering free car rentals and two-for-one ticket deals to help fill seats on its Europe-bound planes. The airline is heavily promoting its new ''Alert'' security measures, which place armed guards and sniffer dogs in most Pan Am terminals. TWA is offering similar incentives, but last week the troubled airline, which has just weathered a ten-week strike by flight attendants, suffered another jolt with the departure of President Richard D. Pearson. Heartening as the rise in bookings was for airlines and travel agents...
...meantime, cloning has become an increasingly important tool for medical and public policy purposes in the developed world, with South Korea leading the charge. Last month, that nation’s customs office announced that its prize sniffer dog had been cloned to produce seven puppies that were genetically predisposed to detecting drugs. Earlier this year, the National Institute of Animal Science in South Korea cloned mini pigs, with organs intended as human implants. In February 2008, Korean company RNL Bio took its first order from a Californian woman willing to pay $150,000 to replicate her dead pit bull...
...page police file on Madeleine's parents sooner than anticipated. So far, the McCanns' lawyers haven't had much to work with. But reports that they got in touch with lawyers for a man in Wisconsin who, in defending their client against murder charges, are challenging evidence uncovered by sniffer dogs, has led to speculation that the McCann team might do the same after "cadaver dogs" - who are trained to smell death - picked up the scent on several items, including Kate McCann's clothes and Madeleine's soft...
...West Coast. At one credit-union branch, Stickley flirted with female staff members in the break room while Alsbury, who played the straight man to Stickley's goofy charmer, had four minutes alone in a credit union's communications hub--plenty of time to install a wireless "sniffer" that could later broadcast information going in and out of the bank. He could also have shut down the security cameras, alarm and telephone systems. The pair got access to the back side of the ATM and a room with boxes of backup customer data. Alsbury was able to drop a disc...
...most hermetic nations on earth, was claiming a successful underground nuclear bomb test and entry into the once exclusive club of nuclear powers as member No. 9. "More fizzle than pop," said a U.S. intelligence source dismissively, though he conceded the blast was likely to have been nuclear. A sniffer plane would later pick up hints of radiation in the atmosphere. Days of diplomatic consternation ensued at Pyongyang's announcement, and after stops and starts, the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea, demanding that it dismantle its nuclear-arms program. It also banned the sale of conventional weaponry...