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...resulted in the arrest of more than 50 people for having fake IDs, entering the country illegally or drug possession. It also has caught one of its own: several months ago a representative from the Department of Homeland Security tested the system by trying to get a fake weapon through the screening checkpoint; he was successfully stopped by a STOP screener. The TSA will also consider deploying SPOT teams to other transportation systems like train and bus stations...
...poles and lines? cutting through the clouds." Made four years before his death, his final photo series cloud (2000) recaptures that view, though what float across the sky are poetic symbols of Aboriginal dispossession: European farm animals and vestiges of Christianity; even the boomerang returns to him as a weapon of racial stereotyping, beautiful but deadly. Riley was a child of the '80s urban-based Aboriginal movement, when art school-educated indigenous Australians like Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett began using the tricks of Postmodernism to critique Australia's colonial past...
...least one judge is back to his old habits of freeing suspects arrested for serious crimes. In March, police and DEA agents arrested Brian Expose, 33, for dealing drugs. Police say they found $186,000 in cash; a pair of assault rifles; five other guns, including an automatic weapon with a silencer; and a large stash of ammunition--not to mention 6 oz. of cocaine...
...going to cost money," says Joerg-Philipp Frey, an analyst at Bank Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt. "Why should Adidas have to do that? They're better off concentrating on their own brand." To Adidas' Stamminger, two brands offer more leverage than one. Reebok also gives Adidas another weapon that Nike has to fend off. "There's a potential in this market that we are not utilizing at the moment," he says. "And just bringing Reebok back, with the strength they had, that's a huge potential." The company is forecasting $223 million in cost savings and $636 million in additional...
...public bench, reading a book. Then Van Themsche killed a pregnant Malian babysitter and the native Belgian two-year-old for whom she was caring. His hunt for further victims was stopped only when a police officer shot him in the stomach after he refused to drop his weapon...