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...brings together his best short work, most of which has been languishing uncollected for decades. A native of the tiny island of Trinidad, Naipaul is a travel writer almost by default--he is a foreigner everywhere he goes--and it's a privilege to look through his outsider's X-ray eyes at Mobutu's Zaire, or at a would-be revolutionary in Guyana, or at a holy man in Bombay, and see what is normally invisible to the tourist...
...consultants to look into bag-screening technology, and they chose a device made by a German manufacturer, Heimann. The TSA's machine tests for density but can't tell for sure whether the suspicious mass is explosives or chocolate, whereas the Heimann machine uses a more sophisticated X-ray method that can make such distinctions by computer. The Heimann machine is capable of screening 1,000 bags an hour, compared with just 200 an hour for the EDS machine and, says Baumgartner, would cost $86 million, compared with $130 million for the TSA's system...
...consultants to look into bag-screening technology, and they chose a device made by a German manufacturer, Heimann. The TSA's machine tests for density but can't tell for sure whether the suspicious mass is explosives or chocolate, whereas the Heimann machine uses a more sophisticated X-ray method that can make such distinctions by computer. The Heimann machine is capable of screening 1,000 bags an hour, compared with just 200 an hour for the EDS machine and, says Baumgartner, would cost $86 million, compared with $130 million for the TSA's system...
...Condemnation According to a report by Amnesty International, America's war on terror is threatening basic human rights to such an extent that in some categories the country is on a par with Cuba. The report cites the indefinite imprisonment of 300 men captured in Afghanistan at Camp X-Ray as an example of violation of human rights and condemned the detention without recourse to the normal legal process of more than 1,100 foreign nationals since Sept. 11. COLOMBIA Time to Talk Having won the election outright in the first round, President-elect Alvaro Uribe pledged to commit...
...next room shows how scientific methods have greatly aided modern art restoration—advanced equipment enables the Straus staff to perform scanning electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction...