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...line of defense is made up of people like Lewis Newby, a former Navy pilot who heads a team of NEST scientists at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Newby travels everywhere with a cellular phone and call-out roster for other team members; at home, a special beeper sits on his nightstand. When a nuclear threat is received, Newby and his colleagues must assess it. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco, nest has a computer filled with thousands of pages of everything publicly written about making a nuclear weapon: newspaper clips, magazine articles, reports in scientific...
...these campaign workers, campaign mode means 15-hour days, the constant companionship of a beeper, greasy Chinese take-out food and CHIPS re-runs at three in the morning...
During that time, allied military planes conducting ceaseless sorties in the Balkans had been picking up beeper snippets that they thought could be coming from the pilot-an extremely sensitive piece of information that was inadvertently revealed by General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, when the general told reporters at a promotion ceremony last Monday that monitors had detected "intermittent" transmissions. "I was dumbfounded he said that," one enraged nato official later declared. "I mean, why not just announce to the bad guys, 'We think he's alive and kicking, and we hope we find him before...
Sarah Lohrius '98 finds CVS/pharmacy suitable for any occasion. She knew that a gift bag full of CVS/pharmacy items would make the perfect birthday present for her roommate. her choices: mood lipstick, a Lion King Koosh, a Power Ranger beeper, press-on-nails, and much more, all for under...
Tired of people whose watches beep periodically to remind them an hour has passed? This Seiko timepiece beeps for a better reason: to signal an incoming phone message. With the press of a button, the caller's number appears on the watch face. The combination watch and beeper enables owners to stay in touch without clipping a boxy beeper on a belt or stuffing one in a handbag. Beeper telephone service must be arranged separately...