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Americans will find it easier to cope with such a development if Europeans are modest about their own habits. Whatever may have been true before last week, this is hardly the time for Europeans to claim they are more virtuous than the gun-loving, arrogant Americans. Ask the police and the demonstrators in Goteborg what they think of European values...
...technology that the nine justices of the Supreme Court wrestled with last week was relatively crude: a heat-sensing gun pointed at a house in Florence, Ore., by federal agents on the lookout for homegrown marijuana. In 1992, a cop using the device had spotted a lot of excess heat coming off high-intensity grow lights. Police searched the house, found more than 100 plants and arrested one of its occupants--a small-time marijuana grower named Danny Kyllo. Kyllo appealed the case all the way to the highest court, arguing that by using infrared technology to pry into...
RADAR FLASHLIGHTS Gene Greneker, a radar expert at Georgia Tech, was fiddling with a radar gun he had developed for monitoring marksmen and archers during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when he noticed something odd: whenever someone walked on the other side of his laboratory wall, a deflection appeared on the radar screen. One thing led to another, and now Greneker is trying to smooth out the final kinks in his Radar Flashlight, a device that looks like an oversize hair dryer but can penetrate 8-in.-thick nonmetal doors and walls. When radar waves encounter moving objects, like a hostage...
...What we are doing is real imaging," says Richard Huguenin, chief technology officer. "You see a picture." Actually, it's more like a shadow. The human body, as it turns out, naturally emits millimeter radiation that goes right through clothes. So anything blocking that emission, such as a concealed gun or wallet, shows up as a shadow in the images produced by Millivision's prototype scanners. Huguenin acknowledges the privacy concerns, but he argues that the technology's public-safety benefits outweigh them. "You can tell the boys from the girls" with his device, says Huguenin, "but you usually...
...tender reed. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. ANDRE RISON and LISA ("LEFT EYE") LOPES say love is gunshots and fire, and Bette Midler be damned. After an eight-year, on-again off-again relationship that's seen Rison shoot a gun in the air after a fight with Lopes and Lopes accidentally burn down the couple's $1.5 million mansion after a fight with Rison, America's supreme fun-loving duo is finally getting hitched. Rison, a widely traveled NFL receiver, told an Atlanta radio station that he and the TLC rapper...