Word: chip
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...Red’s third-period timeout swung it right back around. With just over five minutes left to play, Harvard forwards Mike Taylor and Kevin Du fought along the right boards to clear the puck. They were close—“Just one little chip, and it would have been out,” Johnson said—but Cornell kept the puck in, and Doug Krantz let loose a slapshot Daigneau never even saw. “It was a bad break,” the goalie said, “but it?...
...automatically become a white woman or a white man, so you acknowledge the double whammy: that's what it is." That realistic approach combined with tenacity, flexibility and good humor helped advance her career. Becoming well versed in technical jargon like "floating-point processors," "DRAM," and "chip throughput," helped...
...someone proposed injecting a computer chip in your arm and said it could save your life, would you do it? As Orwellian as it sounds, VeriChip is betting this will be a billion-dollar business. The firm's parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, won FDA approval last year for what it bills as the "world's first human implantable microchip." A radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip contains a 16-digit personal ID number that can be scanned like a bar code, providing health-care workers access to your medical records online...
...John Halamka, chief information officer of Harvard Medical School, got chipped last year and says he hasn't experienced negative side effects. He acknowledges that colleagues find the chip dehumanizing. Security experts are worried that the system can be hacked. And there are concerns that chips could one day be used to monitor the movement of those with implants. And the chip isn't cheap: the suggested retail price is $200 and isn't covered by insurance...
...into the contest. Miller would finish the game with three saves. “Jane had the ball near the top of the circle and the defense dropped off her for a second,” junior Audrey Ziomek said. “She hit a well-executed chip shot at about the goalie’s shoulder level, basically impossible to save.” But the lead would be short-lived. Columbia responded on a Kim Branich blast off a penalty corner, which Ashley McMasters then tipped and redirected past a defenseless Connolly at 24:46. Despite allowing...