Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instruments. At Kitt Peak in Arizona, the structure of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories' solar telescope was beginning to corrode because astronomers, strapped for funds, had put off painting it. This year they could wait no longer, and instead of buying a new, badly needed $100,000 infrared detector, they put the available money into a paint job. The choice, while necessary, depresses Sidney Wolff, director of NOAO. Although the infrared detector was developed in the U.S., she says, "European observatories can afford to purchase it, while we cannot. This is really a revolution in technology; if you're using...
...says it was rape, and the police believed her story enough to charge him with the crime. Perhaps it was the bruises on her leg; or the instincts of the investigators who found her, panicked and shaking, curled up in the fetal position on a couch; or the lie-detector tests she passed...
Hubbard wrote one of Scientology's sacred texts, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, in 1950. In it he introduced a crude psychotherapeutic technique he called "auditing." He also created a simplified lie detector (called an "E-meter") that was designed to measure electrical changes in the skin while subjects discussed intimate details of their past. Hubbard argued that unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations (or "engrams") caused by early traumas. Counseling sessions with the E-meter, he claimed, could knock out the engrams, cure blindness and even improve a person's intelligence and appearance...
...England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, a banner bearing the now-familiar yellow ribbon reads "We Support Our Troops." It greets residents as they pass through a metal detector and check in at the front desk for their bed assignments...
...most visible symbol of the U.S.'s technological edge -- those pinpoint strikes on Iraqi targets -- actually represents some fairly straightforward bombing. The key technology is a simple laser detector on the nose of a glide bomb that is electronically linked to adjustable fins in the bomb's tail. All the pilot has to do is point a pencil-thin laser beam at his target and push a button. A stabilizing computer keeps the beam locked in place, freeing the pilot to pitch and roll as necessary to evade enemy fire while the bomb rides along the beam's reflection, flying...