Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside the school, new perimeter fencing and cameras help control and monitor access to parking lots. Inside, tiny wireless cameras in black boxes will monitor classrooms. To safeguard such valuable school property as TVs and VCRs, Sandia has implanted each appliance with coded microdots that contain the name of the school and a serial number, which makes equipment easier to identify and recover. For the first time this fall, Permian will deploy drug and alcohol test kits, drug- and explosives-sniffing dogs and portable metal detectors for random searches...
...text messaging over cell phones has for years been a standard service from London to Lisbon, and the chat method of choice for teenagers in Tokyo, only a tiny number of users in the U.S. have the feature. U.S. wireless carriers are on the cusp of offering Internet access; overseas, it's already happening. Cell phones as wireless modems for laptops? Works great--in Europe...
Among the new security measures, 16 color TV cameras have been installed to monitor activities indoors and out. Students will be issued identification badges, and access to locked entryways will be restricted to holders of electronic cards. A third uniformed guard will join a roving patrol that includes an armed Jefferson County deputy sheriff. Mental-health counselors and nurses will be on hand if needed. There will also be a designated "safe room" for those overcome by emotion. Jackson Katz, a California-based authority on male violence, is being brought in to lecture coaches and activities directors about tolerance...
...computer speakers, you can now use virtually any speakers, including the ones on your home stereo. The device, somewhat smaller than a VCR, pumps out 30 watts per channel, has "virtual" Dolby Digital (which simulates five-speaker "surround sound") and has a digital signal processor that allows one-button access to a variety of preset audio mixes. CD players have been offering that last feature for a while--you can simulate the echoey acoustic footprint of a church, for instance, or a jazz club, a movie theater or a concert hall. Another setting is designed for gamers, making explosions boomier...
...passer-by reported to HUPD that someone was trying to gain access to the dorm by Canaday Hall. He was described as a white male, 6' tall wearing a blue shirt and brown pants...