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...Pennsylvania State University, sports-science researcher John Shea has developed the "Leaper Beeper" for divers. The system uses sensors connected to a laptop computer to measure elements of an athlete's dive; during practice, a beeping noise code tells the diver in the air how high he has jumped and how far down he pushed the diving board. "We want to give the diver immediate and precise information about the dive so a change can be made for the next attempt," says Shea...
...somehow, as Fisher traveled that brief and reassuring stretch of terrain day after day, her life took the sort of detour that is every parent's nightmare. She is accused of becoming a prostitute by age 15, meeting customers through an escort service and sustaining contact via a beeper that she showed off in the high school girls' room. Far worse, she is charged with falling in love with an alleged client, a 38-year-old auto-body-shop owner, and shooting his wife in the head. Fisher insists she is an innocent 17-year-old who wants only...
...little help from modern technology has enabled him to maintain his night life as much as possible. Kordis says he now carries a beeper so that he can arrange where to meet his brother and friends at the end of a shift...
...drug dealer needs a beeper and a gun. Kids who are not actually dealers pack a gun to pretend that they are. A gun makes a man-child dangerous and commands respect. As the cartoon figure He-Man says, "I have the power!" A firefight may be set off by a drug turf war or, as with Tyrone and Ian, some lesser thing. Children kill children over earrings and jackets and tennis shoes...
...When the beeper goes off, I put out fires," explains Lewinton. "I'm always a little anxious, but I'm pretty well trained, and I never go in alone...