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...fire alarms that emptied Widener Library Tuesday afternoon were probably caused by a fan blowing on a heat detector, Robbie Mesheau, a Buildings and Grounds fire equipment supervisor, said yesterday...
...employed for everything from sending telephone messages to cooking steaks, would seem to be a highly unlikely medical tool. Like other electromagnetic radiation-notably X rays-they damage tissue at high enough energies. But the Faulkner microwaves are perfectly safe. Reason: the radiation involved is emitted not by the detector, as in conventional breast X rays (mammography), but by the body itself...
About 70% accurate, the gadget is admittedly less precise than mammography (90%) and only on a par statistically with infra-red thermography. But since there is no radiation risk and no need for a skilled X-ray interpreter to make an initial judgment, Sadowsky points out, the microwave detector could at the very least be used for prescreening women-especially those under 35 who are ordinarily not encouraged to have mammograms unless they have a family history of breast cancer or symptoms of the disease...
...flaming red Alfa Romeo, and to the highway patrol it seems I am begging for a speeding ticket. Without my Fuzzbuster, I would be at their mercy. When police radar is no longer accepted as automatic proof of guilt in traffic court, I will gladly put my radar detector away...
...field is Electrolert of Troy, Ohio, which currently makes some 2,000 of its $90 "Fuzzbusters" a day. Electrolert was founded in 1973 by Dale Smith, a former Air Force research scientist. After being caught in a speed trap, he went home and built himself a radar detector. It was comparatively simple for him, since he was also making radar devices for the police...