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...boxes will monitor classrooms. To safeguard such valuable school property as TVs and VCRs, Sandia has implanted each appliance with coded microdots that contain the name of the school and a serial number, which makes equipment easier to identify and recover. For the first time this fall, Permian will deploy drug and alcohol test kits, drug- and explosives-sniffing dogs and portable metal detectors for random searches...
...sham, of course. But we can learn a lot from the con jobs our public servants deploy, and so it is with this new fad of listening. For Mrs. Clinton--and now we really are being fair--is not the only politician who is lending us her ears. "Listening" has become mandatory in a state-of-the-art campaign, regardless of the candidate's party or ideology. As he was preparing his campaign, George W. Bush made clear he wasn't going to be a chatterbox, either. "I need to go out and listen to what people have...
...passenger trains and restaurants and theaters and airplanes) from the cell people before we all go crazy. There must be a gadget in the Sharper Image catalog or somewhere that could negate this nuisance. A cell jammer, say, a pocket-size device that cell haters could carry around and deploy to knock a phone abuser offline. Even better if the device could also transmit into his ear a high-pitched shrieking sound, similar to the one the phone company used to use before informing you that the number you were calling was not in service...
...both Serbs and ethnic Albanians. Commenting on the KLA?s monopolization of power, widely respected Kosovar Albanian newspaper editor Baton Haxhiu told the Times, "Each day it is becoming more dangerous to think and speak independently." Part of the problem is that the United Nations has been able to deploy only 156 of the 3,000 policemen promised by member states. President Clinton joins leaders of NATO countries and Balkan leaders for a summit on reconstruction to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Friday. They?ll have a lot more to discuss than simply mending bridges and rebuilding roads...
...China gained from its spying and high-technology purchases. Cox & Co. assert that "the stolen U.S. secrets have helped China fabricate and successfully test modern strategic thermonuclear weapons." They state that Beijing may test a long-range mobile solid-fuel-missile system this year and could be ready to deploy...