Researchers didn't think they could test minuscule samples of materials and grasp their properties.

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Prisoners searched using the scanners had to volunteer to be part of the process, so all of the illegal materials detected during the test were carried by prison officers who agreed to be part of the trial.

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Mjangos came up with his own bizarre explanation for his actions, including that he was in fact hired by boyfriends and husbands to see if the women would respond to requests for pornographic materials, a sort of fidelity test similar to what a private investigator might do to find a cheating spouse.

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The report said head teachers and council officials also wanted to see a stronger literacy element and a test that would avoid commercial exploitation, such as the marketing of practice materials to parents.

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At the ceremony Boeing affirmed that the virgin test flight of the world's first big airliner to be made largely of composite materials, rather than aluminium, would take place by the end of June.

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Making this determination will also depend on what materials leaked from the test, which experts can use to understand what kind of a device was detonated and infer how it was designed.

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So far, the company has built a one-eighth-size prototype to test its design, which consists of a carbon-fibre keel, an envelope made from modern composite materials, half-a-dozen engines, a passenger compartment, and a specially lightened crane.

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