GOVERNMENT TO TEST RAIL SECURITY MEASURES

Government to testrail security measures
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak and commuter rail passengers at one suburban station will have to walk through an explosives detection machine and have their bags screened in a new security experiment designed to frustrate terrorists.
The Transportation Security Administration was beginning a pilot project today at a rail stop in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Passengers were to walk through a "puffer" machine, which sucks in the air around them and within seconds determines whether they've been in contact with explosives.
Jack Riley, director of the public safety research program for Rand Corp., a think tank, said harried commuters probably won't like being screened.
"Anything that lengthens their rail experience is just going to meet with resistance," he said.
The 30-day pilot program also includes a baggage screening machine used in overseas airports. The TSA wants to see how well the machines work in a passenger rail and commuter environment.
Dillinger's Wis. hideoutgoes on the market again
MANITOWISH WATERS, Wis. -- A lakeside restaurant where John Dillinger and his gang of bank robbers escaped a hail of government gunfire in the 1930s is up for sale for nearly $2.6 million. Bullet holes and all.
It's the second time that Little Bohemia, a supper club and former inn on 11 acres, has been up for sale since Dillinger was the government's Public Enemy No. 1.
"I tell people, 'I have got good food. And I hire nice people,"' owner Frank Theisen said. "'The sun sets over the lake. And I have bullet holes."'
Lots of them -- in windows and three different pine walls.
On April 22, 1934, federal agents were tipped off that Dillinger and Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis were at Little Bohemia for a weekend getaway.
Dillinger, alerted that something was up because dogs started barking, jumped out his upstairs room's window, onto the inn's roof and escaped into the darkness, running along the shores of Little Star Lake before he stole a car.
The agents shot to death a local man and wounded two others in their attempt to capture Dillinger, who died three months later outside the Biograph theater in Chicago after he was betrayed by a woman who became known as the Lady in Red.
Clinton works on memoirs
NEW YORK -- Former President Clinton's memoir, "My Life," will settle some scores, starting with the "supine" press, according to a report in the June issue of Vanity Fair.
"He feels severely misinterpreted by the media," an unnamed friend told the magazine, and that his memoir is "an opportunity to set a lot of things straight."
Booksellers expect huge sales for "My Life," for which Clinton received a reported $10 million to $12 million advance. The book is due out in late June.
The book will include few mea culpas about Clinton's role in the Monica Lewinsky scandal or other matters, Vanity Fair said.
More SARS cases in China
BEIJING -- China confirmed three more SARS cases today, raising to nine the number of people known to be infected in the country's latest outbreak.
All are linked to a Beijing research lab where investigators suspect workers caught and spread severe acute respiratory syndrome.
The father of a nurse who treated an infected lab worker, the nurse's hospital roommate and a person who helped take care of the roommate are the latest confirmed cases, the Ministry of Health said.
They previously were listed as suspected cases. No other people in China are suspected of SARS.
Airline salad containsa little something extra
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A little frog with your salad, ma'am?
Australian carrier Qantas said today it has changed its lettuce supplier after a passenger on a flight from Melbourne to Wellington found a live frog in her greens.
The one-inch Australian whistling tree frog didn't get a chance to hop away. The woman plunked the lid back on her meal preventing any escape.
The Qantas plane's crew notified the Quarantine Service while the plane was still in the air and officials were waiting when it landed at Wellington Airport.
"I'm afraid the frog was euthanized" in a freezer, service general manager Fergus Small told National Radio.
Quarantine officials made a check of the airplane "but no other frogs were detected," he said.
A Qantas spokesman told National Radio that the airline had changed its supplier since the February incident. Tree frogs were common in the area where the lettuce was grown.
Associated Press