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...Kyllo was arrested in 1992 after an Oregon National Guard sergeant used military equipment - an Agema Thermovision 210, which could detect different levels of infrared heat emanating from a building - to find that part of Kyllo's triplex was putting out a relatively large amount of heat. Thanks to the splotchy picture produced by the thermal imaging device, the cops were able to get a search warrant, go into Kyllo's home and find that he was growing about 100 marijuana plants in a room above the garage, under high-intensity lamps. In previous decisions dealing with this technology, courts...
...drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week, and that makes them easy marks for even small bribes. Customs officers take no chances. They direct Castano's Chevy to a large X-ray machine, big enough to scan two semis at once, that can sometimes detect what the sniffer dogs may miss...
...mystery is why employers are so addicted to these pre-employment tests. Drug tests seldom detect anything but the most innocuous of illegal drugs, usually marijuana; and personality tests only measure some combination of literacy and hypocrisy, not your ability to get the job done. Maybe the real function of the tests is not to convey information to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information being conveyed is, You will have no secrets from us. We don't just want your time and your effort, we want your entire self...
Whether you're talking about conventional therapy or one of these promising new approaches, experts agree the earlier you catch a cancer, the better your chances of controlling it. And thanks to a growing understanding of the cancer cell's natural life cycle, doctors are learning how to detect the disease at its very earliest stages. One well-known example is the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, which identifies a protein secreted by abnormally growing prostate cells before any symptoms appear. (The test is not perfect, however, since psa is also secreted, albeit in smaller amounts, by benignly growing prostate...
Eventually, the goal is to detect precisely which molecular processes have gone wrong in an individual patient's cancer. Rather than being identified as lung cancer or breast cancer or kidney cancer, tumors will be tagged as EGFR positive, for example, or COX-2 positive. "The dream," says M.D. Anderson's Mendelsohn, "is that if Mrs. Smith gets a breast biopsy, we'll be able to say, 'Here are the four genes that are abnormal in her tumor,' pull open a drawer, pick out the antibodies or small molecules designed against the abnormal products of those genes, and give...