Word: emits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...smart houses are being built every day. Eventually, programmable devices will become so cheap that we will embed them in the cardboard boxes into which we put other things for storage or shipping. These passive "computers" will be activated as they pass sensors and will be able to both emit and absorb information. Such innovations will facilitate increasingly automatic manufacturing, inventory control, shipping and distribution. Checkout at the grocery store will be fully automatic, as will payment via your digital wallet...
...lotion that have been rated by consumers. On all the sites, improved onscreen colors are making it easier to tell when a red is more fuchsia than rose. And three firms--AromaJet, DigiScents and TriSenx--are developing low-cost scent machines that could attach to a computer and emit perfume and other aromas by next year...
...clearly that since 1979 there has been absolutely no warming in the lower atmosphere. He is well aware that such data correspond almost perfectly to those gathered independently by weather balloons. And he understands that surface measurements of temperature can be notoriously unreliable, given the thermal "noise" modern cities emit. But Gore, sipping his iced tea as he leafs through Earth in the Balance, remembers these things selectively, understanding them when he wants...
...have an impact on another important cycle, known as the North Atlantic or Arctic Oscillation. In this case it's not the warming these gases create in the lower atmosphere that is key, but the cooling they cause in the stratosphere, where molecules of carbon dioxide and the like emit heat to space rather than trapping it in the upper atmosphere. This stratospheric cooling, Wallace and others speculate, may have biased prevailing wind patterns in ways that favor a wintertime influx of mild marine air into Northern--as opposed to Southern--Europe...
...living near heavily traveled streets--where 20,000 or more vehicles pass daily--may have a sixfold-increased risk of developing childhood cancers such as leukemia. (Previously, the electromagnetic fields near electric-power wires were similarly blamed.) Researchers point the finger at benzene and other possible carcinogens that vehicles emit--and kids inhale. --By Janice M. Horowitz...