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...suddenly and agonizingly plausible scenarios. In our eyes, trash receptacles become potential hiding places for sarin gas canisters. Mid-sized office buildings, no matter their unimportance, become potential targets for al Qaeda and require increased security. Tunnels become potential tombs. Nikes and Rockport wingtips become potential vessels for plastic explosive putty in the eyes of security guards who, given the obvious and proven dangers of laxness, are trained to view the next Richard Reid as just as likely as the next benign case of athlete’s foot...
...Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, it is literally child's play. Doctors there are trying out a toy-like device called PediSedate for putting kids to sleep without anxiety. Meant for kids ages 3 to 9, the gadget looks like a big, plastic version of a pilot's headset--in a choice of blue or cranberry--with a snorkel attached. The contraption is connected to a Nintendo Game Boy or, for music lovers, a portable CD player. When it's time for surgery, the child dons the headset (instead of a scary face...
...LATEST COVER STORY 9/11: The Secret History August 12, 2002 Past Issues Plastic Surgery Aug. 5, 2002 ----------------- Korea's Pop Scandal Jul. 29, 2002 ----------------- Pakistan's President Jul. 22, 2002 ----------------- Vegetarianism Jul. 15, 2002 ----------------- Understanding Anxiety Jul. 8, 2002 ----------------- Being Tom Cruise Jul. 1, 2002 ----------------- Asia's World Cup Jun. 24, 2002 ----------------- China's Labor Problems...
...People hardly appear in his pictures, he says, because there is already a central figure - the imaginary person standing in the road through whose eyes we view the scene. In George Shaw's pictures the viewer is always on the outside looking in. Using Humbrol enamel paints (designed for plastic airplane kits), Shaw, 36, depicts the 1960s housing estate in Coventry where he grew up: its fish-and-chip shops and social clubs, its surrounding wet woods and backways. People and cars are missing, the light is fading and summer never comes. In Scenes from the Passion: The Fall...
...dozen Tokyo commuters, dire prophecy came true. On a sunny March morning in 1995, Aum members, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract a police investigation into their operations, used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five subway trains. A poisonous, invisible cloud spread through the carriages and stations. Thousands of people were made sick, and 12 died...