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...Texas Instruments these days, RFID is the workhorse behind applications like access control, baggage handling, sports ticketing and product authentication. In Plano, Texas, vice president David Slinger traces the genesis of the revolution to 1993, when companies like TI collaborated with carmakers to deter theft. TI, working with the Ford Motor Co., came up with a key that literally talks to a car. Use the wrong key, and the car is immobilized. "RFID transponders are now in 7 out of 10 cars," says Slinger, and car theft is down--as much as 75% for Ford's often-targeted Mustang...
Former Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis ’68 has often professed a love of his alma mater’s time-honored traditions—but that love apparently could not deter Lewis from unexpectedly snatching away one of the College’s most treasured perks: the use of fireplaces in undergraduate dorm rooms...
...Bremer of that operation--had serious pacification problems. A particularly violent revolt occurred in the town of Uxellodunum. "Caesar saw his work in Gaul could never be brought to a successful conclusion if similar revolts were allowed to break out," wrote his friend Aulus Hirtius. "So he decided to deter all others" by cutting off the hands of the prisoners taken at Uxellodunum and sending the survivors out across Gaul as an object lesson. Hirtius concluded, "The situation was now everywhere satisfactory...
...Bremer of that operation-had serious pacification problems. A particularly violent revolt occurred in the town of Uxellodunum. "Caesar saw his work in Gaul could never be brought to a successful conclusion if similar revolts were allowed to break out," wrote his friend Aulus Hirtius. "So he decided to deter all others" by cutting off the hands of the prisoners taken at Uxellodunum and sending the survivors out across Gaul as an object lesson. Hirtius concluded, "The situation was now everywhere satisfactory...
...incredible stage presence and real artistry," says Glyndebourne's executive chairman Gus Christie. The singer himself attributes his confidence to his Western Samoan roots. "My people are not performers, but they are very flamboyant," he says. "They have self-belief in things which might perhaps deter others." The famous haka war ritual performed by New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team, a posturing display of aggression, is the ultimate Kiwi demonstration of confidence, and Lemalu, soft-spoken with a frequent laugh, comes from a background more rugby than Rigoletto. "The fact that I sang in the choir sat uneasily with...