Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Braak is a spectacular new find, but scarcely the only one. Other salvors are finding sunken treasure by using computerized navigational devices and techniques developed for oil exploration and military navigation. Magnetometers, often used to detect ferrous metals, can pinpoint such common shipboard fittings as iron nails, barrel staves and anchors...
Preserving the vast collection also occupies a major part of the Library's concerns. "The danger to me, particularly, is that for a large and old collection like ours, it's hard to detect what's quietly deteriorating in the stacks," Feng says...
...Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...
...developing a 17-ft.-long, two-stage ASAT rocket launched into space from high-flying F-15 jets. The miniaturized infrared guidance device is so sensitive to temperatures that it can detect the presence of a foot-square block of ice in space at 500 miles. The F-15 can get airborne, launch its rocket and intercept a satellite within ten minutes. Concludes the congressional Office of Technology Assessment: "The U.S. air-launched ASAT weapon now undergoing testing is clearly technically superior to the present generation of Soviet ground-launched ASATs...
...test's authors claim in their article, published in the Journal of The National Academey of Sciences, that the test is so specific that it will detect only cancer-caused AFP elevation...