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...same, "the ports and sea cargo are our most vulnerable areas right now," says Lester Boeh, a vice president of Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, Calif. Varian produces high-energy X-ray systems that the company says can penetrate 17 inches of steel, giving customs inspectors a view of what's hidden behind the thick walls of a cargo container. Another company, NucSafe, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is producing radiation sensors that determine whether suspicious items within a cargo container might be dangerous. The scanners irradiate the cargo, and NucSafe's sensors read the "signature" that is sent back...
...thing Asymptote has not developed is a recognizable style, although it's fluid in most of the current "isms." It toyed with deconstructivism in early designs, such as the steel cloud Rashid proposed as a gateway for Los Angeles in 1988. (The cloud registers the heaviness of the traffic and converts it into music.) The firm has also flirted with folded geometry, designing a store interior for Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele in New York City that's both chunky and smooth, as if carved out of ice that's melting and setting the clothes afloat...
Formica Stainless steel Zippers Tanks Neon lighting Geiger counters Mammography Traffic lights...
...cozy cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly an unsightly street. It has no windows on the street side, where it presents instead a solid wall of resin-treated wood that has weathered over time to resemble rusted steel plate...
What I really got was a piercing—a shiny steel ring through my right eyebrow—but I figured I’d rather my dad be relieved than horrified...