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...When they could not give a reasonable explanation of why they had the bicycles and whose bikes they were, the officers took the bicycles out of the car to inspect them.” Catalano said...
...that checked luggage, airport devices that inspect it now use X rays and C.T. scans to signal the possible presence of explosives. If they turn up something suspicious, a human handler has to open the suitcase and poke around inside--a time-consuming effort that can delay flights. But within the next year, InVision, a Newark, Calif., manufacturer of baggage-screening devices, plans to begin selling machines that marry existing baggage scanners with devices that use "X-ray diffraction" technology. When a bag is found to contain something suspicious, the specialized scanners can zoom in on the indicated area...
...important next step would be to make the detection technologies faster and smaller. At Livermore, scientists developed and recently licensed a device called RadScout. Designed to detect trace amounts of radiation, it's a battery-powered, lunch-box-size handheld detector that customs officers could use to inspect suspicious containers at close range. Bruce Goodwin, head of the lab's nuclear-weapons program, says he hopes to see future versions of the device no bigger than a pen and "cheap enough so that every cop can have...
...parts of the country. "No one is expecting to find a factory with lots of gleaming missiles stuffed full of WMD," says a British official. "These weapons have been dismantled into their component parts and hidden." The Pentagon's goal is to secure suspected weapons sites and then methodically inspect them--rather than blow them up, which would risk spreading deadly toxins in the air. Still, the allies need to move fast. Some U.S. and British officials fear that if chaos persists, top Iraqi scientists may attempt to flee, perhaps in the hope of selling their expertise--or even...
...scrubbed dishes, made sandwiches and worked the register. When female employees had to take out the trash, he grabbed the bags for them. When company managers came to inspect the store, Rlickman would make them try to blow up one of his balloons—but puff as they might, they could never get one started...