When Florida International University turns on the “Wall of Wind” inside its airplane hangar turned engineering lab, the 12 enormous fans recreate the strength of a major hurricane. Within seconds, the walls and roof of their target, a shed-sized model of a home, can be torn away and flung into a net-covered field. 

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Months without finding any unexploded ordnance. Not a single bullet. But he had a feeling about this place. We had driven down a one-mile dirt road, past derelict farmhouses and the flat fields south of Mantua, in northern Italy, and walked into a grove to reach a half-collapsed fort. 

The cover story of the July 2002 issue was dedicated to bald eagles. Mennini, a slender 52-year-old from Mantua, is the head and technical director of Co.Ve.Smi., one of Italy’s 30-odd private companies specializing in the detection of unexploded bombs.