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...disclosure only hinted at his actual nuclear capability. Indeed, the intelligence failure is almost as frightening as the prospect of Saddam's bomb. After Israeli jets destroyed Iraq's Osirak research reactor in 1981, Baghdad embarked headlong on a secret enrichment program that relied on an old-fashioned method called electromagnetic isotope separation. Used by Manhattan Project scientists in the 1940s, the technology is considered so obsolete that it is discussed openly in scientific literature and can be built from relatively common electrical components. Though time consuming and unreliable, it nonetheless fooled American intelligence officials, who scoured the Iraqi desert...
Enter the man who may have finally invented a better mousetrap: political scientist James Fishkin, chairman of the government department at the University of Texas. He calls his innovative method for bridging the chasm between electors and the elected "a deliberative opinion poll." The voters will get a chance to see how it works on national public television next January...
Most Vermont teachers seem enthusiastic, if curious, about the new method. But some fear that basic skills will suffer if uniform testing of students is abolished. "That would definitely be a mistake in math," says Steven Jarrett, an eighth-grade math teacher in Craftsbury. "Algebra needs to be practiced continuously." Concedes Ross Brewer, director of the Vermont project: "There are no smart people to copy. We are literally making this thing up as we go along...
...process nicknamed Morph, as in metamorphosis, first developed in 1988 for the film Willow. Footage of the robot and footage of actor Robert Patrick were coded and fed into the computer, which blended one into the other. The illusion of walking through steel bars was created by another pioneering method that ILM technicians have dubbed "Make Sticky." Footage of Patrick walking unimpeded down a corridor was layered over a computer-enhanced three-dimensional image. As the computer image "melts" to simulate flesh deforming between computer-generated "bars," so does its onscreen counterpart...
...Voting 6 to 3, the Justices decided that police may search a bus passenger's baggage if he agrees, even if they have no warrant or probable cause to suspect him of any crime. "Working the buses," as the police call it, has become a common method of interrupting the interstate flow of drugs. Last week's ruling followed a string of recent decisions that gave police the power to conduct searches without warrants. The court also decided during this term that suspects who were arrested without warrants may be held for up to 48 hours before police press charges...