Word: detectors
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...baby in it cries for 30 sec. If the baby doesn't stop after about 5 min., a signal is sent to the parents via remote. A sensor goes off if the room gets too hot or cold. And for parents fearful of studden infant death syndrome, a motion detector indicates if the baby has stopped moving for too long...
...with his mantle askew, hounded by an increasingly confident Opposition over claims by a former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign, and briefly caught up in an embarrassing public debate over whether he should submit to a lie-detector test over the issue. Labor believed the election should be fought on voter distrust of the political veteran, but Howard skillfully turned their jibes around. The election would indeed be fought on the question of trust, he said - not in one or another account of past events...
...there anything quite so stupid and time-wasting as the 1980s metal detector - the all but obsolete device that had gold diggers scouring beaches and suburban dumps for treasure? You can find yourself asking such questions with the work of Australian sculptor Ricky Swallow. And in the case of Diagonal Choir, 2000, his full-scale replica of a metal detector, made from PVC and epoxy and sprayed a ghostly white, you could ask: has anything as purposeful and beautifully crafted been shown in a gallery recently? Swallow, 29, is fascinated by the objects contemporary culture spits out. So when...
Airline security is about to get a lot more touchy-feely, and aviation experts say it's high time. Airport screeners from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) often touch passengers whose belts or bras trigger a metal detector. This is usually done with the back of the hand, but new procedures awaiting approval will allow screeners--with permission--to use their open hand to search a passenger's body as part of a more thorough search for hidden explosives. Security officials tell TIME that the new measures, which may be instituted as early as this week, come in part...
...life is returning to a certain normality. Outside the Caffit cafe in the city's German Colony, twice a target for attempted suicide bombings, an Ethiopian Jew checks bags and swipes a metal detector over would-be diners before unlatching the security gate. Most of the restaurant guards in Jerusalem are drawn from the underprivileged Ethiopian community--few others are willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death. The Ethiopian security check has become so quotidian that only the naivete of a child can expose the strangeness of it. As an Israeli woman walked...