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...customs computers advance information about trucks and drivers dispatched from Canada to the U.S. When the driver arrives at the inspection booth, he simply hands over a bar-coded document, gets scanned and, if everything matches, goes on his way. GM is experimenting with truck-mounted transponders to beam the data to the customs booth while the truck is still on the bridge. Under the old system, Anderson explains, a truck could take 1 1/2 hours to clear. "With NCAP, we can process it with one bar code," he says. "That's a huge time saving...
...suspect a mere variation on the average 110 cases every day in the E.U. When I was an upstart of four, my father was traveling at night on a lonely road in Western Australia, his business colleague driving. A car came over a rise with its lights on high beam. Half-blinded, my father's colleague instinctively pulled off the road. He hit a parked trailer, almost sheering the car in half. My father died; the driver was unhurt. I don't know if the high-beamer even stopped...
...hours I’ve spent watching C-SPAN this summer. I think this all-politics, all-the-time channel gives students a much more realistic depiction of what the U.S. Congress is all about: gentlemen from Ohio with mops on their heads threatening to do the moon walk. Beam...
DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS Imagine a cross between a microwave oven and a Star Trek phaser: a tight, focused beam of energy that flash-heats its target from a distance. Directed energy beams do not burn flesh, but they do create an unbearably painful burning sensation. The Air Force Research Laboratory has already spent $40 million on a humvee-mounted directed-energy weapon. Expect to see it in the field...
...stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the PEP travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies in San Diego, that transmits a powerful electric current along a beam of ultraviolet light. Shine that light on a human target, and you have a wireless taser that can paralyze targets as far away...