Word: detectors
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...Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Reading that often tin-eared update of the beloved King James, Macdonald wrote, "is like walking through an old city that has just been given, if not a saturation bombing, a thorough going-over." As a satirical gadfly, cultural critic and detector of cant, Macdonald was a worthy successor to the sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken...
Declaring himself "absolutely determined to get to the bottom" of the Ames spy affair, CIA Director R. James Woolsey announced that a review of "systematic" security problems at the agency, including overreliance on lie detector tests, is under...
...Ames was the hand behind the Howard, Motorin and Martynov debacles -- as is now suspected -- he was a cool number. In 1986 he passed the polygraph test routinely administered to intelligence officials every five years. By then there were subtle changes in Ames' behavior, but nothing that a lie detector would pick up. Colleagues still found Ames unsophisticated and lazy, but his dullness had been replaced by a cavalier attitude and an appetite for drinking and dancing. Agency hands recall Ames' sitting with his feet propped on his desk, smoking cigarettes and reading old counterintelligence files. He also spent...
...Derfner, though, there is a drawback to the jewelry: "Now, every time I go through an airport metal detector, I get really scared," he says...
Melissa Franklin, associate professor of thenatural sciences, says she was working on adifferent project--to construct a detector made ofsynthetic polycrystalline diamond. The diamonddetector would have withstood the massive doses ofradiation in the interior of the collider, shesays...