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...perform similar functions often have stretches where they are similarly shaped. Instead of focusing on the structure of just one target, Vertex homes in on entire families of proteins as it seeks out its leads. This is done by crystallizing a protein of interest and exposing it to intense X-ray beams. The way those beams are scattered reveals how atoms along the molecule's length are arranged--information that is converted into a protein structure by computers. Chemists use this structure to digitally model molecules that should fit--like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle--into grooves...
Argenbright is the largest U.S. provider of airport security, with 19,000 employees managing 40% of the passenger screeners used by U.S. airlines. It has expanded despite a mud-stained record. In 1997 undercover agents at Detroit's Northwest Airlines terminal sneaked a fake bomb through an X-ray machine; the airline subsequently canceled its contract with Argenbright at that airport. FAA investigators have discovered Argenbright employees who do not speak English and others who are undocumented immigrants. Its workers earn the equivalent of burger flippers at fast-food restaurants, and it has a turnover rate of nearly...
...measure, which the President signed into law Monday, provides stricter screening guidelines for carry-on bags and passengers themselves, a more thorough x-ray procedure for checked bags and upgraded security systems on board airplanes. All this for the low, low price to the traveler of just $2.50 per passenger, per leg, or no more than $5.00 per one-way trip...
...Bags checked through the new system will be subject to expanded inspections; airports have two months to implement the improved system and until the end of 2002 to install explosive detection x-ray systems. Lawmakers frustrated by airport management who?ve deemed cutting-edge screening devices "too slow" or "too unwieldy" have added a caveat: Airports will be required to actually use the new security systems to their fullest capacity...
Schneider, while using sophisticated methods of printmaking, never loses sight of the glowing humanity at the core of each image. Unlike their close cousin the x-ray, these photographs never violate the boundary between body and environment. The hands and lips are brilliant in their complexity, but never try to be more than a very sophisticated surface, never penetrating to bone and sinew. For Schneider, science illuminates the body’s form, without ever violating its sanctity. That constant sense of reverence is what makes his work art, rather than a photocopier joke gone horribly awry...