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The Federal Aviation Administration has been working with two U.S. companies to solve the problem. Starting next summer, the FAA will receive five new devices developed by San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. for screening checked luggage. The machine bombards luggage with neutrons that interact with the nitrogen in...
In a way, the filmmakers were politicians: they would be using the new Mississippi to depict the old. Mostly, the shooting proceeded without incident. Sometimes, though, old images must have haunted the older townsfolk. One day Colesberry spotted one of the crew's pickup trucks toting a huge Klan cross...
Every schoolboy knows the one about the con man trying to sell a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge. But two New Yorkers seem to have succeeded in marketing it piece by piece. Ruffino Sauco and John Baressi were arrested Nov. 19 after being spotted prying off 200-lb. sections of the...
Ted Ullyot is a first-year member of Harvard's track team. This summer, Ullyot won a two-and-a-half mile run at Fresh Pond. Track Coach Frank Haggerty spotted the results of that race in the Boston Globe and asked Ullyot to join the team.
William Lawless, a former engineer at Savannah River, contends that plant managers paid little attention to workers who spotted what they considered unsafe practices. He says he was overruled when he tried to warn officials in 1982 about storing highly radioactive liquid waste in holding tanks whose floors had corrosive...