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...part, is just waiting for a green light from the Bush Administration, which may come as early as this week, to start vaccinating 500,000 troops. Even so, if U.S. forces were attacked with biological weapons during an invasion, $1.5 million mobile labs mounted in Humvees would detect such agents and alert soldiers, who would then climb into masks and protective suits. It would be tough going in that gear, especially in the searing heat of summer; just taking a sip of water would be a 17-step process. Of course, that's better than enduring a bout of smallpox...
...concerned is the government that a terrorist could smuggle nuclear material into the U.S.? Concerned enough that the U.S. Customs Service is quietly installing new technology to better detect radiation at mail facilities, airports, seaports, rail yards and across the U.S. border. The new "radiation-portal-detection systems," costing $100,000 to $150,000 apiece, will supplement current technology, which consists of radiation "pagers" worn on the belts of customs personnel. Containers and vehicles will pass through the devices, which can pick up a wider variety of radioactive emissions than the pagers, from weapons-grade plutonium to medical waste that...
...suspicion alone is simply not feasible—for example, in large courses where professors rarely can get acquainted with their students’ writing styles. University of Virginia Professor of Physics Louis R. Bloomfield, who developed his own version of anti-plagiarism software, used this program to successfully detect more than 40 instances of cheating in a large introductory course. Many of the students caught by his software were subsequently expelled; without the use of Bloomfield’s software these students, who were clearly guilty of academic dishonesty, would have gone unpunished...
...professors who choose to use computer software to detect cheating should do so with caution. Much of the new software can be imprecise and is no substitute for more careful scrutiny by professors and TFs. Technology should not replace common sense in potential plagiarism cases, and professors must fully investigate any similarities the software finds in students’ work...
...theirs is fast becoming a happening capital. So is it? Simply, no. The bitter truth is that the only place ever to have known a paparazzi stakeout is T.G.I. Friday's. But whereas five years ago New Delhi was dead, now, on the right night, it is possible to detect the faintest cosmopolitan pulse...