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...designed to keep track of your cholesterol, caloric or sodium intake. Just tell it your nutrient goals, keep it up to date on what you are eating, and it will do the counting for you, down to the last milligram. Properly programmed, it will even send you a warning BEEP, BEEP, BEEP if an overdose of sodium is imminent...
...proposed electronic system would involve placing a small mercury label in each book. Monitoring devices at the door would emit a beep if someone tried to remove a book. "One reason I considered it is because we cannot afford to have a staff member checking bags at the door," Kovacs said...
...asks those at the back to move up to the curb to avoid blocking traffic, then gets all singing and many dancing to his one-man version of the Beatles' "Twist and Shout." It is a happy inter-generational, inter-racial scene. Cars and buses scream by, and some beep...
...which connect to the operators' office. Each operator sits in front of a long bank of flashing lights and colored buttons, wearing a clip-on earphone and a near-invisible, transparent, cable mouthpiece that keeps her hands free. When a call comes in, the console emits a faint beep and the operator answers it with the press of a button...
...taken to the hospital's fourth-floor intensive-care unit, where he spent a restless night. So does almost everyone in such a unit: the lights are kept on; nurses and doctors move about constantly, checking vital signs and taking blood samples; monitors hooked up to patients beep incessantly. Reagan was given antibiotics to combat possible infections and pain medication to ease his moderate discomfort, more the result of the operation than the bullet injury. Dur ing the night, doctors removed the wind pipe tube that had been left in place after surgery to facilitate breathing...