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...know what RFID stands for, but you're probably using the technology on a daily basis. RFID (that is, radio frequency identification) is in passports, in electronic toll-collection tags, in credit cards, metrocards, library books and car keys. Like conventional bar codes, RFID chips store and relay information, and allow for the identification of commercial products - and, now, of house pets and people too. Human "tagging" was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 to facilitate retrieval of private medical records, but the procedure has had few takers. It's still purely voluntary and last week, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Microchip Tags Safe? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...part, though no one seems to agree with me. To them, I pose these questions: Who else but Britney would think to pair Ugg boots with a bed sheet that doubles as a dress? Who else but Britney would shave her head, beat a waiting photographer’s car with an umbrella, and then two weeks later claim that this was because she was researching a role for a movie? Even her new video, the concept of which is that a blonde Britney watches a brunette Britney strip, so aptly characterizes the schizophrenia of our modern epoch. Whatever...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Iconoclastic! | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...York gangsters, and threw lavish parties for top Syrian military intelligence officers based in the Bekaa, plying them with whisky, women and thick wads of $100 bills. Hamieh received expensive presents in return from his grateful clients. One gift was a brand-new Porsche which Hamieh, unaware of the car's status value, blithely destroyed in a matter of days by driving it over rugged dirt tracks to visit his poppy fields. He has the dubious honor of being the only Lebanese on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of international narcotics "kingpins." Although Hamieh says he retired years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Comeback for Lebanon's Hashish | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...shape a dramatic scene, he aces his action sequences. The undercover infiltration of a drug warehouse is tense and stifling, with each corridor distending into murky darkness, shot with just enough slow-motion to give the whole scene the feeling of a nauseous, hallucinated pipe dream. A car chase filmed mostly from within a pursued car feels suffocating because of Gray’s decision to use only sounds that the character are hearing and no soundtrack. But his treatment of the political nature of his story fails to impress. When the mob attacks Joseph at his home, Bobby goes...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: We Own The Night | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

Annoyed with that smidgen of rust in your car's wheel well? Then put yourself in the shoes of the nation's oil and natural gas pipeline operators, who monitor nearly 600,000 miles of high-pressure steel pipelines--every square inch susceptible to corrosion-induced failures, the kind that can lead to leaks or explosions. And very ugly ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER headlines. Not everyone's complaining, though. The industry's nightmare has been a boon to companies that prevent and repair pipeline rust, typically through a process called cathodic protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pipe Dream | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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