Word: detective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some ways the exaggerated, vowel-rich sounds of Parentese appear to resemble the choice morsels fed to hatchlings by adult birds. The University of Washington's Patricia Kuhl and her colleagues have conditioned dozens of newborns to turn their heads when they detect the ee sound emitted by American parents, vs. the eu favored by doting Swedes. Very young babies, says Kuhl, invariably perceive slight variations in pronunciation as totally different sounds. But by the age of six months, American babies no longer react when they hear variants of ee, and Swedish babies have become impervious to differences...
...tubes and a urine sample cup has won FDA approval as the first drug-testing kit for home use. Translation: parental use. While the $30 device, expected in the stores in about six weeks, may never "empower the individual citizen," as inventor Dr. Theodore Brown promises, its ability to detect cocaine, heroin, marijuana, PCP, amphetamines and morphine with a mail-in urine sample is bound to spark a storm of controversy. Customers need only place a urine sample in a plastic package included with the kit, mail it in to a government-certified laboratory, and, after one to three days...
Thousands sounded during the war, and most were dismissed as false alarms. But in some ways, it doesn't matter if they were false or not because, as designed, the equipment was not sensitive enough to detect the kind of chemical danger Tuite believes exists at very low levels. At least some in the Army apparently agree, because chemical detectors used by Army workers who handle the poisons are calibrated to detect far smaller doses of chemical weapons than those used by troops on the battlefield...
...would be impossible to make a bomb as crude as the one at Centennial Olympic Park without handling the powder, but no trace of explosives was discovered anywhere on Jewell, in his truck or at his home, even by the vaunted devices used by the FBI that can detect one part per trillion. "They knew within days of going through his apartment that he didn't do it, but they continued to accuse him," says G. Watson Bryant Jr., one of Jewell's attorneys. "Their conduct is just despicable...
...Simple blood tests can identify which patients with acute chest pain are likely to die from a heart attack. The tests detect proteins called cardiac troponins that are released by damaged heart muscle. Results are available in minutes, allowing doctors time to intervene...